The Initial Training of Teachers in Physical Education from an Ethnographic Perspective
Conference:
ECER 2012
Network:
Format:
Paper

Session Information

19 SES 04, Parallel Paper Session

Parallel Paper Session

Time:
2012-09-19
09:00-10:30
Room:
ESI 2 - Aula 3
Chair:
Carl Bagley

Contribution

 This paper presents some issues relevant to the research conducted during the preparation of a doctoral thesis. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the role and impact of initial training is teaching the students in physical education from the University of Almería, from what they feel, think, do and say.

 

The role of initial training should focus on designing professional and human profile from a holistic perspective, however, the debate on education is more concerned about what to do that how to do and to that what, an issue that is much more evident in the college education, and this reflects the disconnect between society and citizenship. The Bologna Declaration (1999) and the EESS is the stage for rethinking the university classrooms as places to which they will learn and build knowledge, concerned with the processes of learning and not focused exclusively on the application of models and teaching techniques.This requires integration work and orchestration between knowledge and skills (Phillipe Perrenoud, 2004), and the only way to purchase it is acting in a singular context, characterized by labor relations, organizational culture, temporal aspects, random situations, with uncertainties and emergencies.

 

The traditional educational (pedagogic) project developed a technical education and instrumental forget other dimensions of the person as communication skills, social participation, personal development, self-esteem and interpersonal relationships. This involve a homogeneous practices without individual differences, cultural and social people. The technical advances in education leading to a specialization of knowledge and that teachers teach in isolation, with fixed times and places, regardless without regard (regardless) to diversity of student. From the theoretical point of view, these procedures underlying the idea that people learn by imitation, repetition and training (Brito, 1997). In the field of physical education, the domain of psychology and behavioral learning perspective was especially influenced by their relationship to the body. The emphasis on measuring technical model led to the educational goals of physical education were defined almost exclusively in terms of development of physical skills and link them to the idea of ​​personal and social development of the people. Meanwhile, the critical theory questions the values that embodied practice has associated, as well as the uncritical reproduction of social structures. However, there is now an important concern to understand the historical issues, cultural, political and ideological about the body and moving the motor from an educational point of view. This perspective includes the training of the subject all physical abilities sensory, mental, emotional, affective, expressive... From this position, the physical education and the body in movement becomes a means for better understanding of himself, active learning and emancipatory education, with order that the students progress in making personal decisions.

 

Method

Introducing the ethnography that examines the elements that make up what he thinks, feels, says and does the students in their initial training in the classroom and during the practicum II. The ethnographic approach captures the complexity of educational reality and try to understand the inner meanings of the experience. The trend worries interpretive inquiring into how the different actors re-construct social reality through interaction with the other members of their community and it will be necessary to take into account the interpretation that they themselves carry out the whys and wherefores of their actions. The data collection instruments: four months of participant observation in the classroom: fourteen interviews, eight of them in depth, three focus groups, 23 physical and expressive autobiographies field diary. All this with a group of 175 people in 3 of Physical Education Teachers, academic year 2008/09.

Expected Outcomes

The students expressed lack of teamwork, reflective, collaborative and dialogical, besides incorporating the intellectual also includes emotional and social dimension. They learned in college are encyclopedic knowledge, where the repeatability and reproducibility of routines and recipes are the basis of learning. The training is centered on the figure of the teachers being the students a recipient of information. The way to evaluate teacher remains the examination. The evaluation processes far from being a space for understanding the learning are an end. Missing approaches, proposals and dynamic linking where love of learning, involvement in projects that involve critical thinking, that learning is an exercise in "love" with the reality of education that incorporates demand, patience, reflection, dedication, persistence and constancy. They add that the content and methodologies are focused on technical, motor learning, the theory of sports training and development of physical-motor skills. Students value the importance of life experiences and conscious of movement within an integrated concept of the body. Notably absent in the voice of the students has been the absence of conscious experiences of a holistic body movement from a critical perspective.

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Author Information

Esther Prados Megías (presenting / submitting)
Universidad de Almería
Departamento Filología Francesa, Lingüística y Didácticas de la Expresión
Almería
Universidad Federal de Pelotas
Escola Superior de Educaçao Física
Pelotas- Río Grande do Sul
Universidad de Almería, Spain

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