The training of Physical Education teachers presents challenges, especially when it comes to the prevention of childhood obesity, because when one thinks about obesity, the biological aspect of this problem is primarily brought to mind. In an approach, in addition to this aspect, this educational
product, resulting from a research carried out in the master's degree of the Postgraduate Program in Technological Education (PPGET) of the Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM), aims to: provide training experiences to teachers of Physical Education (PE) regarding the prevention of childhood
obesity according to the franklian theory. The product, a training course, which was developed in a distance format (EaD) with 14 Physical Education teachers from the State Secretariat for Education and Sports of Amazonas (SEDUC-AM), is organized in two parts: first, it deals with the fundamentals
the training course, presenting Viktor Frankl and the contributions of his theory to the training of Physical Education teachers, specifically, to address the prevention of childhood obesity; second, deals with the development of the training course, which is organized into 40 hours, based on three units,
each containing three classes, presented in scripts. The results of the development of the educational product indicated that PE teachers recognized the importance of understanding human three-dimensionality for the perception of new ways to face the challenges of preventing childhood obesity.
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