Merleau-Ponty and Physical Education with children ; Merleau-Ponty y la Educación física con niños ; Merleau-Ponty e a Educação Física com crianças

This article is a development of the research Children, Physical Education and Teaching Methodologies: Interfaces between the fields of knowledge of Physical Education and Childhood. From some empirical findings, it aimed at making a theoretical and exploratory reflection taking as reference the thought of the philosopher Merleau-Ponty. With these findings and reflections it was intended to know and to derive theorical-didactic-methological principles for Physical Education with children. At the same time, we call upon the phenomenological perspective of “self move”, developed by Elenor Kunz, as a possibility of ensuring something that is intrinsic to children, that is, the “naive relationship (that they establish) with the world”. Both authors bring an important phenomenological notion: the expression of having and being a body, as the structuring principle of being-in-the-world; of having and being a body as a way of “viewing the child for herself – an ontological dimension”. In addition to these phenomenological notions, we also conclusively highligth the important notion of child common to Merleau-Ponty: that of Manuel Sarmento (a sociological look), when he praises the positivization of chilhood: “view the child for himself”. ; Este artículo és um desarrollo de la investigación Ninõs, Educación Física y Metodologías de la Ensenãnza: Interfaces entre los campos de conocimiento de la Educación Física y la Infancia. A partir de algunos hallazgos empíricos, tuvo como objetivo hacer una reflexión teórica y exploratoria tomando como referencia el pensamiento del filósofo Merleau-Ponty. Con estos hallazgos y reflexiones, se pretendió conocer y extraer principios teórico-didáctico-metodologicos para la Educación Física con los ninõs. Paralelemente a esto camino, reclamamos la perspectiva fenomenológica del “automovimiento”, desarrollada por Elenor Kunz, como possibilidad de asegurar algo que és intrínseco a los ninõs, esto es, la relación ingenua (que establecen) con el mundo”. Ambos autores aportan una importante ...