MEETING BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS
Basic Psychological Needs; Continuing Education; Motivation.
The teaching of Physical Education in primary education faces major challenges, some of which are historically known, such as the relentless search for the consolidation of a curriculum that supports pedagogical practices and, more recently, that justifies the continuation of the discipline as an educational curriculum component. From the perspective of another aspect of the teaching and learning process, the challenge of physical education is to alleviate the gradual disinterest in the discipline that sometimes culminates in the withdrawal of students, especially from practical classes. Studies that focus on motivation in physical education in the last decade report the close relationship between the satisfaction of basic psychological needs and the increase in intrinsic motivation and self-determined behaviors, with an effect on participation and engagement in classes. The interpersonal teaching style interferes in the motivation and engagement of students in physical education classes, through practices aimed at supporting autonomy (autonomy support), which include pedagogical strategies in order to satisfy the students' needs for competence, autonomy and social bonds. Thus, the objective of this research will be to identify the extent to which knowledge about the dimensions of basic psychological needs underlie the teacher's teaching decisions, both intuitively and rationally, as well as to analyze the effects of continuing education with a view to teaching knowledge about the importance of a practice aimed at meeting basic psychological needs. For this, it is proposed to carry out an action-research, carried out in the Extension Course entitled “Motivation in school physical education: how to engage students in classes?”. From the thematic classes based on the theory of Basic Psychological Needs, the teacher will be encouraged to reflect and think about their practices aimed at meeting the needs of competence, autonomy and social bonds as a strategy to alleviate the withdrawal of students from classes. The sample will consist of individuals who enroll in the course, with an offer of 200 places. Of these, 150 places will be allocated to basic education physical education teachers working in the country and 50 places will be awarded to scholarship holders of the Institutional Program for Initiation to Teaching Scholarships in the area of physical education. Qualitative in nature, data analysis will occur throughout the course of the course, that is, from the profile of the course participants - characterized from filling out the form at the time of registration, until the conclusion of the last activity of the course. The treatment, systematization and categorization of data will be carried out in the MaxQda software, followed by the interpretation built from a deductive perspective in which the categories will be determined, based on the theoretical framework of this research, the theory of basic psychological needs.