Santos, Antonio de Pádua dosPereira, Eugênia Maria Gregório2020-09-142020-09-142020-06-03PEREIRA, Eugênia Maria Gregório. Nos passos da dança: uma experiência pedagógica com dança no ensino médio em uma escola militar. 2020. 91f. Dissertação (Mestrado Profissional em Educação Física em Rede Nacional) - Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/30053This paper is the result of a pedagogical experience with Dance content in a military school with high school classes of basic education in the state of Ceará, located in the city of Fortaleza; in order to describe this pedagogical experience with dance, built collectively with the students, and to identify the strengths and weaknesses of dance as physical education content in schools, as well as observe the interest and participation of students in the several activities carried out. The research was carried out during Physical Education classes with four classes from the 2nd Year of High School, totaling 114 students, whose classes took place in the afternoon, on the shift in which the students were enrolled and lasted 45 minutes. The results were described and analyzed as a case study, based on the observation of the teacher-researcher and added to the reports of the students' field diaries. The intervention reached its goal of collectively building with the students a proposal for the development of dance content, with theoretical-practical classes, with the effective participation of students and culminating in a day of collective presentations where all classes in the same series could interact . In addition to identifying the potentialities and weaknesses of dance as a content of school physical education, reaching the construction of knowledge, empowerment, the use of spaces and the experience of freedom of body movement - spontaneously and collectively individual. In the universe of possibilities for the development of dance content, this paper serves mainly to understand the need, potential and richness of this content to integrate the various manifestations of body culture present in School Physical Education classes and thus encourage the first steps to many other teachers in the dance rhythm.Acesso AbertoEnsinoDançaEducação FísicamasterThesis