Study about the subject analysis in children’s literature published in Spain dealing with Physical Education and Sport

Authors

  • Rafael Guimarães Botelho Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ)
  • Cristina da Cruz de Oliveira Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro - UERJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2011.35

Keywords:

Subject analysis, Children’s literature, Physical education, Sport, Spain

Abstract

This paper has the aim to investigate the subject of children’s books published in Spain dealing with Physical Education and Sport. To develop the paper, the subject analysis technique was employed. The corpus of analysis, 60 children’s books collected, can be found in the doctoral thesis Physical Education and children’s literature: applications in the scholastic environment (Botelho, 2010). The results obtained in this paper indicated that: (a) 30 subjects were identified in the 60 children’s books analysed; (b) the subject football presented the great incidence, with 13,33% (eight books); (c) the second subject with great incidence is games, with 10,00% (six children’s books); (d) the subjects ballet and running had, each one, 8,33% (five books); (e) the other subjects registered an inferior incidence of 8% (with 4 or less books); (f) the majority of subjects presented an incidence of 1,67% (only one children’s book). The conclusions obtained in this article indicate that: (1) from the 30 subjects identified in the 60 children’s books, the subject football had the great incidence; (2) the majority of subjects presented only one incidence.

Author Biographies

Rafael Guimarães Botelho, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ)

Doctor en Educación Física y Deporte: didáctica y desarrollo profesional (2010) y Máster en Iniciación a la Investigación en Educación Física y Deporte: didáctica y desarrollo profesional (2009) – Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), España. Perfeccionamiento en Metodología de la Investigación (2003) y Postgrado en Ética Aplicada y Bioética (2003) – Fundación Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Brasil. Licenciado en Educación Física (2002) y Máster en Educación (2006) – Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil. Profesor y coordinador de investigación del Campus Avanzado Arraial do Cabo – Instituto Federal de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de Río de Janeiro (IFRJ), Brasil.

Cristina da Cruz de Oliveira, Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro - UERJ

Jefe de la Biblioteca del Centro de Educación y Humanidades B: Educación Física, Letras y Artes – Universidad del Estado de Río de Janeiro (UERJ), Brasil. Diploma de Estudios Superiores Especializados en Biblioteconomía y Documentación – Universidad de Salamanca (2008), España. Diplomatura en Biblioteconomía (1990) – Universidad de Río de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brasil.

Published

2012-04-24

How to Cite

Guimarães Botelho, R., & Oliveira, C. da C. de. (2012). Study about the subject analysis in children’s literature published in Spain dealing with Physical Education and Sport. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (45), 14–27. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2011.35

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