School Physical Education and the Assimilation of Mental Actions

Abstract

In the development of this study we seek to investigate the possibilities of success in the teaching of school Physical Education using as basis for pedagogical planning the Theory of Assimilation of Mental Actions by Stages proposed by Galperin. Our goal is to verify how these steps can promote didactic success in Physical Education classes for young children and to identify its relations with Cultural-Historical Psychology in this discipline content teaching. The work was developed through document analysis in texts of Soviet psychology scholars, such as, Vigotski (2005); (2003); Talizina (1988) and Galperín (1986), dealing with a theoretical revision, but critical and interrelated to the pedagogical approaches to Physical Education. We understand that, as part of educational psychology from Russia, this theory expands the possibilities of learning because it understands the student in its social context and with that the proposed activities are developed within the students concrete reality, an objective end for the planned action resulting in the reduction of the time taken in the teaching and learning process and in overcoming fossilized behaviors in the pedagogical accomplishment of the curricular component.