The gender relations in the sport by students of the municipal public network of Juiz de Fora

Abstract

This research intended to identify the meaning attributed to sport by the students from Juiz de Fora public schools, through the perspective of gender, based on the theory of social representations. It were considered two social dimensions into sport: sporteducation and sport-performance. The study assumed a qualitative feature, using the content analysis and, on some occasions, the discourse analysis. The sport was represented with individualist, and few cooperative values and with emphasis on competition, maintaining sexist stereotype. That representation to mix with two dimensions and evidence that it is moving away from the educational sport. The social actors to show the necessity of a sport practice in school with cooperative, not selective, few competitive and not sexist values.