A psicomotricidade relacional como prática educativa para inclusão de adolescentes com deficiência intelectual na educação física escolar

Abstract

Introduction: Relational Psychomotricity (PR) was developed in the 1970s by French physical education teachers André Lapierre and Bernard Aucouturier. It is an educational practice that uses the symbolic game in the action of spontaneous play for the integral development and the autonomy of the subject. Objective: To analyze the process of inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in school physical education, through the PR educational practice. Methodology: This is a "participant" research in a non-probabilistic way, and a kind of sampling for convenience. Data were collected with a group of 36 students from the 7th grade of elementary school II of a municipal public school in Natal-RN, and having 3 students with intellectual disabilities. The collection instruments of this research were 1 SONY Cyber-shot digital camera, 2 NG-100 sports digital camcorders, Sampaio anamnesis (2010), the spontaneous reports of the students, the spontaneous and reflexive reports of the teachers. Eight physical education classes were held with the symbolic game of Relational Psychomotricity, once a week, during a two-month period. A qualitative analysis of the data was performed, including coding, decoding, interpretation and construction of the theoretical framework. Results: In the eight classes the inclusive process happened gradually in a spontaneous non-directive form, illustrated in the photographs and audiovisual. The students were able to perceive the pedagogical and / or social inclusion and to experience it. In the spontaneous and reflective reports of teachers, pedagogical and / or social inclusion occurred freely. Regarding the students' spontaneous reports, the contents of the students with intellectual disabilities were expressed in the relationship with other colleagues and teachers. Students with intellectual disabilities expressed their relationship with each other and with objects through graphics. Conclusion: The approach of Relational Psychomotricity as an experience of educational pedagogical practice in physical education classes allowed the inclusion of students with intellectual disabilities, providing them with the acceptance of the corporal, intellectual, moral and emotional differences and the comprehension of the relevance of the inclusive process.