The debate about body practices at school is not recent, such issues permeate until today, and
the center of discussions almost always revolves around what should or should not be
practiced in Physical Education (PE) classes. Currently, there is some agreement on the basic
contents to be taught in the classroom by Physical Education professionals, which was built
through many debates and discussions. According to Soares (1996, p. 11, emphasis in
original), "modern Western Physical Education has taught GAME, GYMASTICS, FIGHTS,
DANCE and SPORTS. We could say that these are the classical contents". This study focuses
on gymnastics, understanding it and its expanded repertoire of possibilities as a specific
content of PE that should, or at least should be developed/explored in the classroom. The
study is theoretically based mainly on the work of Ayoub (2013), in his work "General
gymnastics and school physical education", as well as studies by: Souza (1997), Soares (1992,
2004), Freitas and Frutuoso (2016), Silva and Sampaio (2012). To contribute to this debate,
the study has as its main theme: gymnastics in school, it was proposed an investigation
through the methodology of Focus Group (FG), with the teachers trained in PE and active
(interested in participating in the research) in Miracema do Tocantins - TO, in the year 2019,
in order to answer the following problem: is the content of gymnastics present in PE classes in
schools in Miracema do Tocantins? Thus, it was possible to conclude with this study that
gymnastics is an absent content in PE classes in the city and that this absence is justified
mainly for two reasons: the rejection of students before the content (especially males) and the
lack of knowledge on the part of PE professionals about the topic.
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