THE PEDAGOGY OF COMPETENCIES AND ITS EXPRESSION IN THE TEACHING ACTION: ANALYSIS OF THE INITIAL TRAINING OF THE BACHELOR IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

In the initial formation of undergraduate courses in Brazil, since December 1997, society has been called upon to prepare Curricular Guidelines based on the notion of competence with the justification of adjusting education to the demands of social transformations. That said, the present study aims to analyze how the pedagogy of competencies is expressed in the bachelor's degree course in Physical Education and to identify the view that teachers have about the materialization of these in their pedagogical practice. To this end, it is a bibliographical, documentary and field research carried out within the scope of doctoral studies in Physical Education. An education based on the notion of competence claims to prepare the teacher to more than handle the conceptual sphere of knowledge, it is about know-how, mobilizing knowledge in the specific situations of their pedagogical practice while preparing students to deal with simple and complex situations in the exercise of the profession. However, when we listen to teachers' reports, we realize that, although some of them do not have full mastery of the competencies expressed in the Curriculum Guidelines, they contemplate them through actions such as: knowing how to listen, knowing how to speak and technical/pedagogical competence, in the domain of various knowledge, ability to solve problems, among other attitudes present in their pedagogical practice.