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OBJETIVO: Descrever as narrativas de estudantes de Educação Física de uma universidade pública do sul do Brasil sobre as retrospectivas da Educação Física escolar no ensino fundamental. METODOS: Participaram do estudo 239 estudantes que responderam a um questionário com questões sócio demográficas e questões referentes às percepções e lembranças sobre as experiências da Educação Física no Ensino Fundamental. RESULTADOS: A partir das narrativas percebeu-se que os investigados consideraram as experiências na educação física escolar mais positivas que negativas, dando valor à diversificação de conteúdos e à relação positiva com o professor. Por outro lado, os acadêmicos com percepção negativa, se referiram às aulas monótonas, sentimentos de vergonha e exclusão e desvalorização da disciplina. CONCLUSÃO: Pode-se concluir que a investigação permite ampliar e promover novas discussões sobre o desenvolvimento e formação profissional para a atuação na área da Educação Física escolar. ABSTRACT. Memories about school physical education: a narrative of physical education students. OBJECTIVE: To describe the retrospective narratives of Physical Education in the Elementary School of graduate students of Physical Education of a public university in southern Brazil. METHODS: The study included 239 students of both sexes. The academics answered a questionnaire with socio-demographic questions and questions regarding the perceptions and memories about the experiences of Physical Education in Elementary Education. RESULTS: From the narratives, it was noticed that the academics who considered the experiences more positive than negative gave value to the diversification of contents and to the positive relation with the teacher. On the other hand, academics with a more negative perception, referred to the monotonous classes, feelings of shame and exclusion and devaluation of the discipline. CONCLUSION: This study opens the door to new discussions about the importance of the quality of development and professional training for the area of Physical Education in schools.

Objetivou-se comparar o desempenho motor nas tarefas da bateria Körperkoordination Test für Kinder (KTK) de crianças com diferentes status de peso. Participaram do estudo, 350 crianças de oito a 10 anos. Investigaram-se: Índice de massa corporal (IMC), circunferência de cintura (CC), razão cintura-estatura (RCEst) e tarefas do KTK. Utilizou-se o teste qui-quadrado para verificar associações e o teste de Kruskal Wallis para comparação das pontuações das tarefas motoras entre os status de peso. Verificaram-se que os meninos com sobrepeso e obesidade apresentaram piores resultados na tarefa de equilíbrio em marcha à retaguarda (p<0,001) e saltos monopedais (p<0,011), comparados aos meninos com baixo peso e eutróficos. Além disso, meninas obesas apresentaram piores resultados na tarefa de equilíbrio em marcha à retaguarda (p<0,001) comparadas às meninas com baixo peso, peso normal e sobrepeso. Conclui-se que crianças sobrepeso e obesidade apresentaram piores desempenhos nas tarefas do KTK comparadas às crianças eutróficas e com baixo peso. Palavras-chave: Obesidade; desempenho motor, status de peso, crianças

The objective of the present study was to verify the agreement between objective and subjective measures of sleep in people with and without visual impairment. Thirty-seven subjects with visual impairment participated in the study (19 blind without light perception and 18 low-vision), as well as 34 subjects with normal vision, with paired age and gender characteristics. For the subjective sleep evaluation, we used the Sleep Quality Index-PSQI and for the objective evaluation we used the ActiGraph GT3X+. Among the three analyzed groups, the blind was the only ones who presented differences between subjective and objective sleep duration (p = 0.021). Furthermore, the concordance between subjective and objective sleep duration (ICC = 0.388; p = 0.108) was not observed in blind subjects, and a greater variability of differences in sleep duration between the two methods was observed by the Bland Altman scatter plot. We concluded that the sleep duration obtained by PSQI did not show agreement for the objective sleep duration in blind subjects without light perception.

School performance assessment in physical fitness tests ABSTRACTThe study aimed to evaluate the performance of students in physical fitness tests. The sample consisted of 88 students, of which 43 were female and 45 were male. The instrument used was to test battery and PROESP-BR measures containing 5 items: Speed test (20m running); Agility test (square); Explosive power test of the lower limbs (standing long jump); Explosive power test of the upper limbs (throwing medicine ball) and cardiorespiratory endurance (6-minute ride). It is noticed that most school showed levels of fitness lower than expected, especially in explosive force components of the lower limbs, agility, speed and cardiorespiratory fitness. It is suggested a better characterization of this population so that public policies to encourage physical activity to improve the physical fitness levels of school can be created.Descriptors: Physical Fitness; Child; Physical Activity.