Fights at school: systematization of content through the fighting games network

Abstract

Although Physical Education at school presents several contents, some have a restricted
development, as it is the case of fights, for example. Numerous justifications deprive students of
experiencing this vast content: society relates it to violence, educators find themselves unable to
teach the content because they haven't practiced it before and due to decontextualized and
analytical practices. Thus, there is a need to develop proposals for curricular organization to
teach the content of the fights. This systematization can be built by an organizational system of
network-based fighting games based on their similarities and characteristics, using a
methodology backed by current trends in sports pedagogy and playing as a pedagogical
strategy. We argue that this pedagogical systematization based on games provides a range of
positive possibilities for the learner, and gives the educators, according to their realities, the
possibility to elaborate organized and systematized classes based on the understanding of
fighting games network.