Gênero e Educação Física: repercussões da política educacional gestão 2007-2010 em Santa Cruz do Sul

Abstract

This essay aims to investigate the impacts of the administration policy in the State of Rio Grande do Sul during the government of Yeda Crusius (2007-2010), in the pedagogical practice of the Physical Education teachers after the determination for consolidation of male and female students groups, in 2007, which used to be taught in separate, in a specific reality for the state teaching system. As this research is worked out in the school context, related to the political, social and economic relations there set, the qualitative approach was chosen to direct the development of the research. The techniques used for data collecting were the semi-structured interview and the analysis of documents. For data interpretation we followed the context analysis guidance (BARDIN, 1977).Four Physical Education teachers from a public school of Santa Cruz do Sul participated in the study. To achieve the proposed goal we sought, at a first moment, to contextualize the public education policy in Brazil, starting from the adoption of the neoliberal principles in our country, in a parallel with the globalization of capital. So we focused on the education policy in Rio Grande do Sul, in the government administration period 2007-2010. And, at the last moment of the study we closed with the “cascade effect” of the Brazilian and the “Gaúcha” (people from Rio Grande do Sul) public education policy in the Physical Education classes, correlating it with the case of gender. In the interviews all the teachers criticized, in the same way, the fiscal adjustment policy incorporated by the state administration in the analyzed period, with the consequent absence of dialogue with the public state professorship, what led to the intensification and weakening of the teaching activity. This weakening is strengthened with the implementation of an external evaluation system based on classifying and meritocratic criteria, absolutely articulated with the administration. Regarding to the Physical Education classes we found out that sports continue to be the most developed content in the classes, based on the technical development of the female and male students. The female teachers confirm their preferences for separate classes for boys and girls and demonstrate their resistance to miscellaneous classes, with arguments to justify the separation because of biologic differences. That’s why the matters about gender in the school environment have to be discussed in order to demystify culturally established conceptions. The study also revealed that the policy implemented by Yeda Crusius government caused innumerable negative impacts in the teaching practice and in the school context. So we verified that different social spheres were affected with a punch of decisions, based on neoliberalism, that just favor the interests of the capital.