The university students expectations regarding sportive practice: a qualitative approach

Abstract

With an analysis of the physical education problem in superior teaching, while a historical and social phenomenum, came up the necessity for the achievement of this study, that had as its objective to anlyse the phenomenum of State University of Maringá regarding the subject of Sportive Practice. This study was considered a qualitative and descriptive research and the process of sample was estratified with the population divided in four extracts: starting academics, veterans, graduated and those who stopped the Sportive Practice. 90 university students applied regularly in the several courses of the State University of Maringá throughout the second semestre of 1987. It was used as an interview research instrument not standardized (opened), that came up from some generating themes that tried to answer the directing questions of the study. The interferences were mad through a qualitative analysis of the contents that implied into a categorization task, findings classification and organization. The obtained results in the study permited the elaboration of the following conclusions. The academic’s expectations regarding the Sportive Practice are related to the professional role that works in it and directioned to the different aspects of the favorite sport practice and the knowledge of the new physical exercises.