Learning to be a Physical Education Teacher: Sensitive Experience of the Lived Body

Abstract

Themes involving teacher training in Brazil have been the subject of many debates in the academic world, specifically after the political opening, which happened in the 1980s, a remarkable period for the current moment. During the period, several images and conceptions were presented regarding the teachers and their process of professional formation. Seeking to contribute to this theme, this research aims to analyze the perception of Physical Education teachers about the teaching and learning process. This is a descriptive research, in which the information is engendered by an electronic questionnaire, composed of five sections, however, this document refers to question 1, Section 5: “How did you learn to be a Teacher?”. 81 professors from different regions of the country participated in the research. A Content Analysis technique is used and the data were organized into 112 notes, gathered in 43 semantic fields, grouped into 6 thematic categories: Continuing Learning, Aptitude, Professional Experience, Continuing Education, Initial Training and Others. It is concluded that the perception of professional learning is constituted by the habits recovered by motricity, that is to say, in the subject's relationship with his own experience, and the experience of the lived body, or in other words, the living of the experience means to the subject and materializes through the way he perceives his formation process.