O ensino dos esportes e a racionalidade técnica na contemporaneidade: possibilidades e limites

Abstract

The present research work had as main issue of investigation the technical rationality and its form of manifestation on sport. For this, we start from the question of the technique as an aspect which assumes a powerful presence in capitalist societies, especially in the way it happens the production of goods. The capitalist societies have a type of proper rationality tends to spread throughout the society. We understand that such societies influence the production of this rationality and, at the same time, absorb their characteristic traits. The technical rationality tend to proliferate in such a way tha ends up generating a society, in the view of Marcuse, one-dimensional and, consequently, the one-dimensional man himself. The elements of culture, as is the case of sport and education, may suffer the influence of this one dimensionality, resulting in a unilateral human formation. In this sense, it was intended here to capture the expressions of this one-dimensionality in final year students of the elementary school by means of a questionaire initially applied seeking to understand how the one-dimensional positive thinking manifests in relation to the sport. In contrast to these expressions, it was used a Critical Methodological Matrix, of critical-dialectical, in teaching unit composed by ten classes, after which we tried to capture possible advances in relation to the overcoming of the one-dimensional positive thinking from the teaching executed. The verification of this overcoming was carried out by means of another questionaire (final) applied at the end of the ten classes. From the initial questionaire, it was verified that the second segment students of the elementary school predominantly presented the one-dimensional positive thinking in relation to sport. In the opposite direction, at the end of classes held, it was possible to identify indicative of suppression and/or questioning the one dimensional positive thinking and rise of dialectic-negative thinking, despite of the one-dimensional positive thinking remain predominantly.