Escolares gestantes y educación física: oportunidades y responsabilidades pregnant schoolgirls and physical education: opportunities and responsibilities meninas grávidas e educação física: oportunidades e responsabilidades

Abstract

Even after the diversity of projects about sexual prevention and education implemented in the schools, the presence of pregnant teenagers has been established into one regular situation in our schools. Different research and mass media report how this trouble has been increasing. The pregnancy at early age is not only representing one risk for the health of the young, because generally there is school desertion, their emotional stability get consequences and it can be a cause of the rising of the poorness’s circles. From the Physical Education there can be significant contributions, that gives responses to the needs of the gestating schoolgirls, improve their living conditions, in favor of their inclusion in a positive way on the school life, also helping to the development of habits of a healthy lifestyle, the social growth, affective and cognitive, taking in consideration that the experiences during the gestation can report important benefits in the life project, which constitutes one of the main challenges for the Physical Education, in that sense the research has as perspective contribute to the construction of alternatives that allow guiding the class of physical education, providing ease of the inclusion of the gestating schoolgirls in a timely, appropriate and participatory way. For that it was done one research process of qualitative research with a design in grounded theory where there were made interviews to gestating teenagers and teachers of physical education of different educational institutions of Bogota, getting information about the perceptions and meanings that have the physical education during the gestation and the possible didactic alternatives