INTERVIEWS WITH COMMENTS AND DRAWINGS: COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEPTIONS AND FEELINGS OF CHILDREN 7 AND 8 YEARS OF TRAINING CLASSES IN FOOTBALL

Abstract

This work, which has a qualitative and descriptive character, aimed to know what children think and feel about training/classes of soccer and had the objective to compare two instruments of data collection: the commented drawn and the interview. We conducted a Field research with six children from 7 to 8 years old that expressed their perpceptions  about classes/trainings of soccer by means of two different instruments: a) the drawn followed by comments; b) interview not preceded by drawn. The treatment of data was performed by means of Contends Analysis and possibilitaded the encounter of the following results: a) The commented drawn compared to the interview was efficient for the majority of the participants of the study, but not all of them; b) The activities the unify the process of teaching and learning to ludic components, specially to game situations, are very significative and a source of satisfaction for children. On the other hand, the excess of exercises and scarce periods for playing and soccer games are the main causes of insatisfactions towards the perceptions of children. These conclusions were obtained under the circunstances and limitations of the present study, pointing to the fact that more researches concerning the use of drawnings as a mean for infant expression and the rescue of the opinions of children concerning the programs of physical activities can be very fruitful for the deeping of projects and pedagogic practices aimed to them.