Handball’s production in national journals: mapping and implications for pedagogical subarea

The study’s aim was mapping and discuss the academic production on handball in different fields of knowledge in Physical Education, especially on that of the pedagogical subarea. State-of-the-art research was carried out in 10 national and traditional periodicals from the Physical Education area, from January 2006 to December 2015. The results indicated from 4,885 published articles, 37 are related to handball. It was verified the predominance of the pedagogical subarea, followed by biodynamic and, sociocultural. Thus, a gap was observed from the surveys analyzed, referring to the approach of teaching handball in classes of Physical Education school according to the particularities of this field of knowledge.