A educação como experiência do corpo em movimento: diálogo entre Merleau-Ponty e Buytendijk

Abstract

This thesis presents education as an experience of the body in movement, based on the dialogue between the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Dutch physician Johannes Jacobus Frederic Buytendijk. We believe that education as an experience of the body in movement happens throughout life based on what is experienced at all times. In this study, we understand Physical Education as education, a common and exclusive sensitive experience of the human being, which involves all spheres of society in general, the family, history and the world. The research aims to present education as an experience of the body in movement, through the dialogue of the academic and professional trajectory in Physical Education and the notions of very own body in Merleau-Ponty and very own movement in Buytendijk as the soil of a phenomenological education based on body and movement. The methodology is based on the phenomenological attitude of the French philosopher Maurice MerleauPonty; we believe that this phenomenological path, based on lived experience, allows us to understand the phenomena discussed here. This new thought built here will start from the descriptions of experiences, memories, of what touches us on this journey, always involved with the body in movement to search around the world, return to ourselves, as well as reading texts. Following the phenomenological reduction, as shown by Merleau-Ponty in the Phenomenology of perception (1945/1999), he dedicates himself to the phenomenological reading of the texts by Merleau-Ponty, Buytendijk that bring the concepts about body and movement treated here seeking the claimed meaning from phenomenology. Considering the phenomenological views on the human body and movement, we think of the field of Physical Education from the conceptions presented by these studies that broaden the epistemological horizon, providing openings and perspectives for educational experiences focusing on the experience of the body in movement. The experiences in dance and cycling made up, among others, our way of feeling the very own body and the very own movement, which allowed us to understand the importance of reaffirming the studies of the understanding of the phenomenological body for Physical Education, considering as existence unit, as well how to affirm the human movement as the opening, expression and function of being in the world.