O que se diz e o que se faz em dança nas escolas públicas da cidade de Macapá

Abstract

The present study addresses the question of dancing in public schools in the city of Macapa. The aim was to understand the phenomenon of dance culture as an element of movement and as the content of physical education in public schools in the city of Macapa. This research takes a quantitative and qualitative instruments and adopted as the data collection questionnaires and semi-structured, aimed at students and teachers from public elementary and high school in the city of Macapa. We tried to map the existence of dance in schools where it is absent we sought to find reasons why it occurs, and describe how this content is working in institutions where it is present.The field research was composed of six institutions, ten teachers and twelve students, with age between twelve and fourth four years old, working and acting in public schools. In the final analysis of data collected it was found the real situation of dance content in the public schools of the city of Macapa, its insertion, its absence and the vision of students and teachers about the theme, demonstrating the students' interest in new content and the content of dance and the disinterest of teachers entering the same in their regular classes.