Abstract:

The last update of the Brazilian National Curriculum occurred in 2018. In this publication, the Physical Education (PE) area was strongly affected in its conception, systematization, and expected outcomes for primary and secondary education. While PE teachers and teacher educators were still trying to understand the full implications of this policy for pedagogical practices, the pandemic affected the entire world. Despite all the challenges of this period, the literature and experiences narrated by teachers showed us opportunities to rethink physical education through the new curriculum. This study aims to describe how Brazilian physical education teachers responded to remote teaching and how this enabled a better understanding of the new Brazilian curriculum. This exploratory study case, qualitative research analyzed reports from 16 months of a PE teacher and observation of recorded remote classes. All data was analyzed by a teacher educator of physical education through thematic analysis grounded in multiliteracy theory and then revised by the PE teacher who reported her teaching experience. The data shows how the PE teacher used different educational resource platforms to create and exchange digital educational resources based on different linguistic modalities. We identified eight different platforms used to create more than a hundred digital educational resources, such as infographics, forms, slideshows, digital bulletin boards, games, booklets, podcasts, brainstorming activities, and quizzes, among others. Considering the multiliteracy theory, we realize that PE classes become less focused on movement technique and gain more possibilities to explore PE knowledge. As the Brazilian National Curriculum inserts PE in the Language Area, we deduce that these results show us an interesting approach to rethink PE practices and make teachers more likely to the new curriculum. The teacher did not recognize, at the first moment, her practice changed. However, after facing the analysis, she realizes it and projects new approaches even after the pandemic.

Keywords:

Remote teaching, physical education, educational resource platforms, multiliteracy.