A dança no ensino médio: reflexões sobre estereótipos físicos e movimento

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze discussions about how body and gender stereotypes are addressed in School Physical Education practices, especially with the dance component, emphasizing their deconstruction to support a more equitable Physical Education. The work presents itself as qualitative research, with a transversal temporal cut, understood as a theoretical study based on a narrative bibliographic review. Theoretical surveys made it possible to identify that there are sociocultural pressures, especially in the school environment, on the reproduction of body, movement and gender stereotypes that are constituted, implying in thinking and doing dance, especially because there is an idealization of a low weight body, of movement and in relation to gender that overestimate aesthetics, generating dissatisfaction in self-esteem and leading to inappropriate behaviors and practices to fit within certain parameters. It is clear that society has elevated the body to an object of consumption, alienating it in the same way it did, unbalancing the proliferation of an aesthetically invalidated body image, in addition to the hegemonization of body practices according to gender. The school still reflects a society marked by stereotypes, maintaining the status quo regarding practices, the body, movement and gender issues.