Vida longa aos jogos tradicionais: preservação cultural a partir dos sentidos atribuídos pelas crianças

Abstract

In the studies about the Traditional Games as cultural heritages of humanity, it is necessary to recognize that their permanence in society is also favored by the senses and interpretations that the children themselves collectively attribute during their experiences. As a result of the need for studies that value the role played by children in the maintenance of traditional games in contemporary society, the problem of this research has arisen: what are the meanings attributed by children to traditional games today, considering the way they interpret such manifestations and symbolic exchanges between them?. The purpose of this study was to identify the meanings attributed by children to the traditional games taught in Physical Education classes for a fifth grade class in 2016 in the city of Cambé-PR. It was an investigation with predominance in the qualitative approach, in which the characteristics of three typologies of research, descriptive, case study and ethnographic were correlated. The main instrument for collecting information was the participant observation promoted by the researcher (the class teacher himself), allied with three other instruments: field diary, images and student productions. Through the analysis of the relationships, interpretations and symbolic exchanges between the study participants, two meanings attributed to traditional games were identified: competition and exploration. The identification of these meanings revealed a certain world view of children about such manifestations. Thus, it is not possible to look at the cultural preservation of traditional games only with the "laurels of the past", specifically in teaching situations in Physical Education classes. Therefore, in future educational processes, it is essential to value children, recognizing them as social actors that interfere in the way traditional games will be learned and maintained.