ETHICS AND INITIAL FORMATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCTION IN THE STATE OF SANTA CATARINA: PANORAMA OF EXISTING COURSES

Abstract

It is sufficiently frequent in the media the news involving ethical questions in the most different organizations and professions. The concerns with the questions of the ethics in the Physical Education start to be part objective of the debate from the presidential sanction of the Federal Law nº 9,696, of September 01, 1998, it regulated the Profession of Physical Education. This article has the main objective to promote the debate and to emphasize the importance of the ethics in the formation of the Physical Education professional. Of specific form one searched: To identify the courses of Physical Education of the State of Santa Catarina and from these, to point the ones that contemplate specifically discipline come back toward the professional ethics. To give account of such objectives it was opted to the accomplishment of a documentary research (OLIVEIRA, 2007). As conclusion it is affirmed that Santa Catarina offers 36 courses of Physical Education, of these, 34 (94.44%) offer qualification in Degree and 26 (72.22%) offer bachelor qualification. Of the total of the courses, only 03 (08.33%) do not present discipline specifically related with the professional ethics in its curricular structures.