Theory and practice in teacher training at UNLP. An analysis of the curriculum

Abstract

The article analyzes higher education in Physical Education Teachers, dependent on the Department of Physical Education of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata (FaHCE). This study focuses its interest on the tensioning of the disciplinary training traditions that give a privileged place to “practical” teaching. This text is part of a set of publications carried out within the framework of the Scientific Production and Training of Body Educators project. Study on the initial training of teachers in Physical Education at UNLP / H95. The period contemplated is the 2020 school year in a situation of social, preventive and compulsory isolation (ASPO) established by the National Government. Context in which, based on this decree, the National University of La Plata (UNLP) dictates Resolution 667/20 of 3/15, ad referendum of the Superior Council, establishing in its article 1, “(…) the non-realization of classroom teaching instances in the entire area of the National University of La Plata (…)” (Resolution 667/20). The research shows how the ASPO puts in tension the disciplinary tradition of the training of Physical Education teachers, which, marked by the primacy of “practice”, had to adapt to a theoretical shift in the suspension of face-to-face teaching and continuity of practices from the use of tools for distance education.