The Second-Time Program’s Distance Education and Leisure

Production Efforts and the Communicative Efficiency in the Professional Qualification of Education Sport’s Coordinators

Abstract

The Second-Time Program (PST) was implemented by Brazil’s Ministery of Sports. PST is a public policy that has been dedicated to professional qualification for the educational sport. Currentely, the professional qualificatios is organized in a face-to-face training and a distance education. The distance education for education sport is the object of this article that aims to contribute to research of professional qualification of sports and leisure. The general objective is to understand the production PST's distance education and how leisure is present in the course. As a methodology we used a semi-structured interview with the PST Distance Education Manager and the participation and conclusion in the PST’s distance education course. We conclude that the management of PST´courses produces efforts named political, technological and structural. The leisure like a subject of studies in the distance education, we have verified that it is worked on in its own module in the training environment from different languages ​​(video-lesson, slides, text discussion questions in the forum and specific questions in the content evaluation questionnaire). We have analyzed that these repetitions of leisure in different formats in EaD familiarize the contents with the aesthetics of repetition. However, this strategy does not increase its communicative power when we look at leisure in the relation between the modules of other contents.