The formation of the physical education professional: teaching the discipline of human anatomy

ABSTRACT

The aim of this work was to understand how the discipline of Human Anatomy is taught during the formationof the Physical Education professional, nine teachers who work at universities in São Paulo and its metropolitanarea were observed and interviewed. The main characteristics observed during these teachers’ pedagogicactions were gathered in an analytical matrix aiming at understanding the established phenomenon. After theassociations were established between the procedures carried out by the analyzed subjects and the theoreticalfoundation proposed by David Ausubel’s Theory, it was observed that this discipline is developed withoutconsidering the essential elements that allow the Significative Learning and, therefore, it has been collaboratedlittle for the professional formation, as it adopts a pedagogical model based on contents represented by theaccumulation of information disconnected from the reality and the academic and professional needs that areassociated with Physical Education.