Conhecimentos dos treinadores e a intencionalidade no ensino de habilidades para a vida: um estudo com treinadores escolares

Abstract

The sports context, focused on performance or at school, represents an important development environment for children and young people. In order for the sports experiences of these individuals to be positive, a good performance by the coach is necessary, who must have diverse knowledge and, in addition, must know how to put it into practice. So, the present study aimed to verify the perception of domain of school coaches from Pelotas about their knowledge and their levels of intentionality in teaching life skills through sport. 25 school coaches from the city of Pelotas who’ve competed in the last edition of the Pelotas School Games (JEPEL) in 2019 have participated in the study. The Coach Knowledge Questionnaire (CKQ) by Quinaud et al (2020) and the Portuguese Coaching Life Skills in Sport Questionnaire (PCLSS-Q), by Ciampolini et al (2021) were used, respectively. In the first questionnaire, 25 responses were obtained and in the second, 19. The SPSS 20.0 statistical software was used to perform the analysis of frequency, means and standard deviation. The participating coaches showed, on average, good or fair perceived domain in most professional and interpersonal skills, with the exception of “implementation and evaluation of training programs” and “training of other coaches”. In addition, they also showed reasonable or good perceived domain in all intrapersonal knowledge addressed. As for the intentionality in teaching life skills, the participants showed that they care about structuring a positive sports climate, with the discussion of life skills and the discussion of the transfer of these skills. In turn, lower values were found in the blocks about the practice of life skills and the practice of transferring these skills.