Abstract

GORDO, Margarida do Espírito Santo Cunha; BENTES, Lívia Maria Neves  and  ALAMEIDA, Raiana de Oliveira. IGNIFICATIONS OF THE BODY AT THE UFPA APPLICATION SCHOOL. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.329-357.  Epub May 29, 2019. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2018v8n2id540.

As we embark on this investigative process with the goal to understand the construction of meanings on and by the body amongst students of primary and secondary school, we are at the same time committed to reflect on how school practices, as extensions of our human activities, affect the attributions of meaning that the students make of the body. We have anchored our methodology in a qualitative approach and for data collection and analysis, with regard to student discourse, we used the Technique of Elaboration and Analysis of Units of Meaning proposed by Moreira, Simões and Porto (2005). From the generating question: what does the word body mean to you? We identified four units of meaning: 1) biological body; 2) reproductive body; 3) movement; 4) the abode of the soul. The analysis of the data led us to infer that the meanings attributed by the twelve subjects of the research still remain strongly tied to a utilitarian, instrumental and fragmented view of the body. When we come across this scenario, we defend corporeity as the fundamental link to be worked within the school in order to restore the conception of corporeal unity and the notion of body as the manifestation of our own existence.

Keywords : Body; Significance; School.

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