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GENERAL GYMNASTICS FOR ALL: PEDAGOGICAL POSSIBILITIES FOR SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Keywords: General Gymnastics, Gymnastics for All, National Common Curricular Base, Physical Education at School.

Gymnastics holds great importance as a precursor to Physical Education in Brazilian schools. In the specific case of General Gymnastics or Gymnastics for All (GG/GPT), its benefits permeate the cognitive, motor, affective, and social spheres, bringing countless benefits to its practitioners. General Gymnastics is present in the new National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) as an Object of Knowledge of the Thematic Unit Gymnastics and in the category Technical-Combinatorial Sports, which are Objects of Knowledge of the Thematic Unit Sports. Therefore, General Gymnastics is present as a mandatory minimum content in 7 of the 9 years that make up the educational path of students throughout Elementary School. However, traditional sportsmanship is still very present in the educational reality, and other practices such as Gymnastics are neglected even though they have great historical and educational relevance. The general objective will be to thematize GG/GPT from a sociocultural perspective in Physical Education at School with students in the Final Years of Elementary School. The research is classified as qualitative in nature, characterized as action research and was carried out during Physical Education classes with a 6th grade class. The instruments used for data collection were the application of two questionnaires, descriptive participant observation, images, and field diaries. The intervention promoted benefits for the students and improved their perception of the modalities related to General Gymnastics or Gymnastics for All. It was evidenced by the analysis of the instruments used that there were positive relationships between the practice of Gymnastics and individual and collective socio-affective issues.