Traditional games festivals: expanding the territories of physical education

Abstract

Objective: to describe and analyze the experience with Traditional Games Festivals, with attention to the contributions to Physical Education and the educational environment. This theoretical study considers the analysis of the reference produced about Traditional Games and experiences with Traditional Games Festivals. Methodology: The central elements of the analysis were organized into two subtitles: Traditional Games in the Context of Physical Education and The Festival: meetings and Different Groups. The study focuses on the elements arising from the encounter and possibilities of different groupings, on the transformation of spaces and diverse experiences of temporality. Results and discussion: It is noteworthy that Traditional Games Festivals reproduce the model of community festivities. Due to diversity and relational spontaneity, the intense interaction with the environment and experiences with space, colleagues and instruments allow the elaboration of corporeality that is more integrated with the dimension of presence. Multiple possibilities question the organization's fragmentation by gender, age, size, or other markers traditionally evidenced in hegemonic European sports and the school structure. Conclusion: Contact with the environment generates a cultural heritage whose imagery is not specific to just this or that culture. It is a collectivized knowledge, which takes on different guises but maintains structuring elements.