Representações sociais sobre Educação Física e atividade física na perspectiva de pessoas com deficiência física congênita: um estudo autobiográfico

Abstract

This study aims to identify and investigate people with congenital disabilities in the city of Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil, as regards representations of physical education in childhood and adolescence and the amount of physical activity in adulthood. Ir also seeks to study and reflect, in the light of contemporary literature, the theory of social representations and relationships of people with disabilities and whether they practice physical activities throughout their lives. The work draws on the expertise of authors who focus the subject of disability and physical education such as Morgado (2013); Duarte (2013); Duarte et al. (2013); Denari (2001, 2012); Cambruzzi (2012); Ferreira, Guimarães (2003); Ferreira (2003); Mazzotta (2002); Glat (1995), A qualitative and descriptive approach is used, along with exploratory research through autobiographical accounts. The main studies supporting this methodology are Mattos, Rosseto Júnior e Blecker, (2008), Ferreira (2007), and Bruner (1997). The study was conducted in two complementary phases. The first one sought to track people with disabilities in the city of Juiz de Fora so that, on a second phase, some people with congenital disabilities could be selected and interviewed. The sample consisted of 10 people, with technical support in saturation. Data were analyzed using the content analysis of Laurence Bardin (2011), and it was concluded that the subject went through an exhaustive process of acceptance to overcome disabilities which they have had since birth. On the one hand, the congenital disability is accompanied by anxieties, uncertainties and difficulties of various kinds, on the other hand, these circumstances led these people to report social and personal representation of disability as a lens through which these individuals are seen and see their world. It became clear that there is much to learn from these people with congenital disabilities, who have learned to live and face the challenges that life presents to them without fear of being happy.