Perspectives and challenges of the continuous formation in circus activities in the school context

Abstract

The article deals with part of the research that investigated the educational potential of circus activities, from the implementation of a continuous education with physical education teachers who work in primary education in schools in the municipal teaching network of Corumba, located in the extreme west of Mato Grosso do Sul, on the border with Brazil/Bolivia. This research came from the assumption that there is a discrepancy of physical education teachers , as well as troubles in dealing with knowledges developed in the graduation courses which face the reality of the situations lived in the pedagogical practice, in school. The contributions of the circus activity reinforce its educational potential in scholar institutions, however, how would this process occour in others context of continuing graduation? Who are the Physical Education teachers interested in inserting the circus activity in their pedagogical practice? What is the contribution from circus activities in continued graduation of teachers? With the completion of the research emphasizes the need to contextualize the continuing formation and the content of the circus to the reality of work of teachers, as well as the collective engagement of the school community.