Thematizing five-a-side soccer in physical education classes in integrated high school

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe and evaluate an pedagogical intervention of a five-a-side soccer teaching unit, based on its thematization and adaptation of games and games, in physical education classes in integrated high school at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso (IFMT). The research is of the pedagogical intervention type, which aims to contribute to the solution of practical problems (Damiani et al., 2013). The participants were a 2nd year B class from the Secretariat integrated high school. The Didactic Unit developed for teaching futsal in Physical Education classes used games and games as pedagogical tools, moving away from traditional and sporting methodologies. Furthermore, conceptual and critical content related to football and futsal was covered, such as: the challenges faced by women's futsal; the distinctions between futsal and football; social inclusion strategies within futsal; the issue of corruption in the sporting context.