No less somersault: understanding gymnastics as a rightful contente for children and adolescents

Abstract

Introduction: It is clear that gymnastics, as a content of Physical Education (PE) classes, has lost space in the school environment, becoming almost non-existent. The literature shows us the challenges and difficulties in approaching gymnastic manifestations at school, even though there is a normative document for learning in Basic Education, the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). The BNCC promotes the standardization of the contents to be worked on and the proposition of skills to be acquired in school subjects, including PE. Objective: In this way, this theoretical investigation aims to identify and analyze the place of gymnastics in educational documents as a right content of Physical Education students in Elementary School. Methodology: The research is characterized as theoretical and bibliographical, with a qualitative and exploratory approach, allowing a greater depth on the theme from educational documents, in particular the BNCC. Studies about gymnastics were used, dealing with its origin, its insertion in the school context, as well as its developments, documents and problems as a content of PE classes in Elementary School. Results and discussion: It can be seen that the contents of gymnastics are standardized in the BNCC and in previous guiding documents, thus being a right of the students, however, they were not always present in PE classes in a significant and total way. Conclusion: It is understood that the applicability of educational documents can make the contents mandatory, however, it does not guarantee the conditions for its implementation, since the social context in which students, teachers and the school are inserted, interfere in the choices, in the access and development of gymnastics in school PE.