ABSTRACT
The way of teaching sports in Physical Education at schools has been modifying over the last decades. In Brazil, this pedagogical transformation is still recent though, and researches in this area have been published from 1993 on, with the aid of traditional methods. This study aimed to demonstrate that badminton practice can be taught in different teaching methods and, furthermore, point how the proposed activities differ when it comes frequency of occurrence for each one of the methods that were applied. The sample included 48 male and female students (15.1±0.64 years old) and three professors. Students were split in three groups according the teaching methods (Analytic, TGfU, and Integrative). Seventeen sessions were performed in the practice of badminton for each one of those methods aforementioned. When it came to reliability, it showed excellent intra- and inter-assessor compliance indicators, the descriptive analysis of class categorization and the qui-squared test evinced the peculiarities of each method. Our conclusion is that the application of the aforementioned methods in a real context of teaching and learning in badminton stimulates and reinforces the ecological validity of the research, once the practice has occurred during Physical Education classe.
Keywords:
Physical education; Teaching; Badminton