AN APPROACH OF THE AFFECTIVITY BETWEEN TEACHER AND STUDENT IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES AT HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

The affectivity consists in one of the firsts needs and one of the key features of the human being, helping at his integral development. There are few researches that deal on the thematic of affective relationships between teacher and student at classes of physical education. In this perspective, the goal of the work was to investigate affective relationships at the classes of physical education in high school between the students and teacher. This research was realized at state schools of high school in Santa Rosa, RS, Brazil. The sample was composed by 380 students from the last year of high school, being 288 from female sex and 92 from male sex. The methodological instrument used was a questionary elaborated by the authors. The results founded showed that: a) As for the students from female sex as for the students from male sex the level of affectivity between teacher and student is a determinant factor for the student to like or not the classes of physical education at school; b) The students accept and wish a frank dialogue, open with the teacher; c) They want the teacher to be capable of understand them, respect their individuality and valorize them without discrimination in the process of interaction between student and teacher. Conclusion: The affective relationship between teacher and student in physical education classes at high school cannot be despised, ignored and must be valorized, because interferes directly in the process of integral development from the student.