Competitive Games and Cooperative Games: Discussions from a Pedagogical Practice in Physical Education

Abstract

This research is an experience report resulting from a pedagogical practice as a curricular component originated for the discipline of the Physical Education Degree Course “Methodology of Games”, at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN).The action plan was carried out in a class of the 9th year of elementary education at a school located in the municipality of São Miguel/RN, with the following objectives: the practical construction of the teaching and learning process in the conceptualization of cooperative and competitive games; and also, experience these games in the development of practical classes. For that, a descriptive methodology with a qualitative approach was used. As a result, the following interpretative possibilities are presented: the socialization of the fruits of the bibliographical research that resulted in the making of posters and exhibition of slides referring to the games; the preparation of tables with the classification of the researched games; and the experience of these games in practical Physical Education classes. Therefore, it is believed that the students developed a significant learning construction in relation to such concepts, an idea proven during the development of the activities proposed by the action plan. Games acquired both a competitive and cooperative character, which reinforces the point of view that the spirit of competitiveness can be present in almost all games. Often, what differentiates in this aspect is the way in which the same game is proposed and played.