Tênis na Educação Física escolar: uma possibilidade didática

Abstract

School Physical Education has sport as one of its contents, therefore, we visualize in Tennis, the experience of a sporting experience. The objective of this research was to create possibilities for teaching tennis, adapting space, rules, recycling and/or reusing materials, using modern teaching methods that contribute to learning the skills and internal and external logic of this sport. The aforementioned modality is included within the sport content, of our curricular component, however its teaching/learning is little disseminated in the school environment, under some well-known allegations such as the lack of adequate materials and spaces, and the lack of experience of its professionals with this, in addition to the predominance of traditional modalities as school sports content. The present study has a descriptive character, an experience report type. This took place during the Physical Education classes that took place at the Anaíza Luiz Calixto Municipal Elementary School, located in the municipality of Patos (PB) - in the interior of the Paraíba hinterland. The content selected for the present study was tennis due to the need to enable the teachinglearning of this non-traditional modality in school sports through a didactic/pedagogical vision and contemporary teaching methods. At the end of the research, we concluded that: 1- It is possible to teach this content even in school contexts lacking space and materials; 2- Even though it is a non-traditional sport in school Physical Education, it proved to be a content that was widely accepted by students; 3- Due to its characteristics of being an active sport, individual or in pairs, it enabled student protagonism and autonomy in its practice. Finally, we realized that tennis is a content that can be taught even in the face of obstacles present in the school environment and that it has motivating characteristics in its teachinglearning, in its experience.