A Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso e suas influências nas práticas educativas ginásticas em Cuiabá, MT (1976-2016)

Abstract

Studies on gymnastic themes, in their numerous variations, have increased nationally in recent years, as evidenced by the increase in scientific productions, greater media coverage and the expansion of cultural and scientific events. However, through empirical experience it has been found that some of the gymnastic aspects were, for a long time, invisible in the territory of Mato Grosso. Thus, this research, included in the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Research Line: School Cultures and Languages, linked to GEEFE (Study and Research Group in School Physical Education and Pedagogical Practices) FEF/UFMT, was justified by the interest in producing knowledge about the gymnastic theme in the academic field, promoting historical records related to Gymnastics in the Brazilian countryside. The general objective is to investigate how the Federal University of Mato Grosso and the Gymnastics developers linked to it collaborated for the insertion, development and diffusion of gymnastics in Cuiabá, MT, in the period between 1976 and 2016. Specifically, the objective was to: recognize traces of the practice of Gymnastics in Cuiabá, starting from UFMT; record training, sports, demonstration events, some of its social actors, among other initiatives, linked to gymnastic practices at UFMT; narrate the paths taken, obstacles and achievements experienced, filling some of the historical gaps about this body practice in the state capital; recognize echoes generated by the actions that contemplated Gymnastics produced from UFMT in future generations. The research is characterized as qualitative and, to this end, we adopted the theoretical-methodological support of cultural history, supported by techniques of documentary research, oral history and thematic analysis to provide the opportunity to prepare a narrative “inventory” on the practice of Gymnastics in the central region of the country. The primary sources of consultation were the documents available at the Physical Education and Sports Memory Center of Mato Grosso (CEMEFE), personal archives of interviewees, as well as interviews with (former) athletes, (former) teachers and (former) coaches who worked with Gymnastics in the region. Through the assumptions of Cultural History presented in Pesavento (2013): narrative, representation, imaginary, fiction and sensitivity, the insertion and development of Artistic, Trampoline and Rhythmic Gymnastics from UFMT were narrated. The research was structured based on the theoretical framework produced, the collection of data from documentary and image sources, among numerous other sources of information. Among the Gymnastics recognized by official bodies (FIG and CBG), exposed in this thesis, Artistic Gymnastics stood out due to the volume of information found over the four decades. GA was present in various Extension Projects and educational practices at UFMT, which included the internal and external community. Likewise, GA was frequently mentioned in the narratives of the interviewees. Trampoline Gymnastics had an intense period of practice in the 1990s, being carried out mainly at the GA School of UFMT and at the COT Gislaine Palaro, however it practically disappeared from the sports scene in Cuiabá in the following decades. The thesis also exposed evidence that Rhythmic Gymnastics was presented almost exclusively in activities aimed at initial training (undergraduate) in the capital Cuiabá, however it produced fruits in Sinop, in the north of the state. This study sheds light on the gymnastics itineraries in the capital of Mato Grosso, offering visibility to facts and social actors, promoting the recording of elements that made up a significant part of its historical trajectory, enabling new studies on the subject.