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Abstract

This research aimed at evaluating whether a pedagogical intervention, which was based on the Cultural-historical Theory and the Activity Theory and carried out with Physical Education students (in teaching degree and bachelor‟s degree programs) at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas, favored the participants‟ learning processes regarding volleyball teaching in school and in sport initiation programs. The intervention had two main guiding principles: a) the articulation between theory and practice; and b) collaborative work whose background is the connection among teaching, research and extension. Teaching activities were integrated to the extension project called Volleyball Project: Community Sport Initiation aimed at male and female children born from 1994 to 1997. In order to teach classes in the so-called Activity Circle, students worked in pairs according to a previously planned schedule. At the end of each class, both recorded their impressions and feelings towards their learning process in a Writing Notebook . After every 5-class cycle, there was a Study and Evaluation Meeting so that every activity which was carried out in this period could be analyzed and reflected on. Besides, new pairs were selected for the next Activity Circle, since students had to take turns. This qualitative research, which was developed in 2 years (2008-2009), involved 29 college students - 19 were taking their teaching degree and 10 were taking their bachelor‟s degree - who had been selected by their enrollment number (first come, first served basis) or by an interview (selection process). Results showed that the pedagogical intervention favored the participants‟ learning processes regarding volleyball teaching in school and in sport initiation programs since they: a) showed they had internalized the contents of the discipline in their high term grades; and b) mentioned they had also learned aspects related to a teacher‟s skills and attitudes which had become a meaningful contribution of the intervention since it reached a magnitude other traditional teaching practices cannot account for.