Residência pedagógica em dança: uma prática de ensino na Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental Antônio Santos Coelho Neto

Abstract

The insertion of Dance in the Brazilian educational curriculum is recent, demanding, from scholars and researchers on the subject, a different look at teaching this knowledge at the institutional level. In this context, this Course Conclusion Paper presents research on the practice of teaching dance in public schools, developed under the Pedagogical Residency Program (PRP). The qualitative research consisted of an explanatory case study, of participant observation and aimed at the teaching practice of the resident/undergraduate Luiz Philippe de Castro, held at the Municipal School of Early Childhood and Elementary Education Antônio Santos Coelho Neto (EMEIEF). Having as specific objectives the analysis and interpretation of the preparation, setting and immersion of the resident in the field school, according to the schedule of activities foreseen in the PRP. The research adopted methodological steps that involved the collection of data in these three moments, the analysis of these data and the interpretation of information, as well as the identification of the limitations of the investigation. The opportunity to build and apply a specific pedagogical project, contemplating a dance teaching methodology based on body awareness and stimulation of students, through improvisation, games and play, allowed them to develop skills and competencies through which they became if possible to communicate through the Language of Dance, and demonstrated the importance of pedagogical residency, in the association of theory with practice, to enrich the process of teacher training.