A Gestão do Desporto na Graduação em Educação Física: um mapeamento da formação e pesquisa na capital do Amazonas

Abstract

In Brazil, the Physical Education has been growing, especially in the last decades, due to the social and economic development of the country, bringing with it the need to improve the qualification of professionals who work in the sporting context. Manaus, the Amazonas's capital, although considered insipient in terms of sport, has undergone major transformations in this area, since it started to be triggered for major sporting events, awakening to the sport and to the understanding of the importance of sports management. With the exponences of Physical Education, the need for competent managers and the firmament of the city as a great Brazilian metropolis, this dissertation sought to understand the training of sports managers in the undergraduate courses in Physical Education in the City of Manaus, in order to contribute with empirical data to the understanding of this antagonistic panorama. In this sense, based on the mixed-qualitative and quantitative approach, documentary sources - curricular structures, trainees' reports and completion work relationships - were appreciated from 10 (ten) undergraduate courses in Physical Education of Public and Higher Education Institutions private, face-to-face, and semi-private activities in the city of Manaus. The analysis of the documents showed, among other results, that sports management as an area of knowledge and intervention of the Physical Education professional is in rapid expansion in the curriculum of higher education in Manaus and follow the recommendations of content of the world reference schools in sport management. Academic research, in turn, is insipient, and is not proportionally related to the amount of subject area that each course provides. The disciplines related to sports entrepreneurship and legal aspects of sport were found more frequently in the curricular programs of the courses investigated. It was also verified that the increase of curricular subjects observed, is related to the growth of the professional market for managers of the sport in the capital. It is based on the field of research in sports management in the Amazonas, and with the mapping of the area in higher education, which can base the necessary revisions of the curriculum of Physical Education training courses.