Aikido como educação do corpo em espaços educacionais

The thesis defends the argument of Aikido as body education, inspired by the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, which emerges from the perception of the body in movement in the world, with itself and with others, having a comprehensive reading of the history and philosophy of Aikido, the lived experiences with this martial art in its virtues, in the tension between discipline and the freedom to learn its martial repertoire, and in the pedagogical practices as a Physical Education teacher and beginner Aikido instructor as a way of educational experience, pointing paths and ontological, epistemological and pedagogical horizons in a sensitive education. The experiences lived with body awareness during initial training and later with Aikido impacted me profoundly, that's why we assume the experience of the body in movement expressing the subjective aspects of being a body. In this movement, we ask: What is the understanding of education, body and movement in the philosophy of Aikido? Thus, we outline the following research objectives: a) contextualize the philosophical and historical aspects of Aikido and its relationship with education as understanding; b) describe a perception of the body in movement in Aikido as a process of incorporating virtues; c) narrate lived-experiences arising from the body in movement in Aikido in the tension about discipline and freedom; d) report on educational experiences with Aikido and the content of struggles at school, pointing out ontological, epistemological and pedagogical horizons of a sensitive education inspired by Aikido and Merleau-Ponty. Therefore, the phenomenology is our epistemic, ontological and methodological’s approuch, where the description of the livedworld, the phenomenological reduction and intentionality are moments of the same movement, in other words, as I carry out each description, it is because I carry out the phenomenological reduction, and at each decision I am within the scope of intentionality, projecting myself along a path, a significant pole where the ...