Using a tool focused on social representation theory, we tried to identify reporting students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport about handball game. According to those surveyed, this study will lead to new approaches to the curriculum.

The research objective

Identification of social representation of sports game.

The research hypothesis

Social actors, beneficiaries of higher education, have some position about the importance and role of handball in their work (specific Faculty of Physical Education and Sport).

The research group

The present study was conducted on a group of 35 students from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport.

Method

The questionnaire was applied in the seminars of the subject Communication in Physical Education and Sport (Faculty of Physical Education and Sport). Survey instrument is composed of 2 items that targeted social representation of university sports game, according to the association of words technique, developed by P. Verges (2001: 213), taking into account the frequency of claims and average ranks appearance.

Procedure

The questionnaire data processing word association (the first two questions of the questionnaire to identify representation, which sought terms specify the frequency and average occurrence), I used the tabular technique Verges (2001). P. Verges's associative technique was based indicators and frequency of occurrence ranks environments, data were summarized in a table with four compartments. Items with high frequency of occurrence and appearance (below a certain threshold) will be considered central, and those with low frequency of occurrence and the emergence of low average, will most likely be located on the periphery of social representation.

Application-categorical prototypical technique developed by P. Verges has allowed us to identify the central system and peripheral system of representation university sports game.

Basic indicators were rank frequency and average appearance, so combined: vertical was figuratively frequency and horizontal order of appearance. It chose a suitable value for the separation of strong frequency of occurrence and low score (below a certain threshold) the contents of the other three wells. Alveola left corner of the table contains elements that are able to be most central and the right corner, where the frequency is below the stated value and the rank of occurrence is lower, representing the peripheral.

Conclusions

Interpretation of results highlighted how the students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports University sports game see. Central System, has an important element, a phenomenon leads to highlight their experiences and unfamiliar approaches, putting his mark on the final design representation. Social representations guide social behavior defining what is normal and desirable in certain situations.

On the other hand, the representation warranted the individual's social behavior. Social actor thinks justifies conduct stemming from freedom and responsibility, articulating and behavior to the variables that come from the environment. According to Abric (1997), the system has a central role in determining the consistency of social representation refers to the homogeneity of a group being linked to the historical, cultural, ideological, social values.

The peripheral is organized around central system acting as a mediator between the core and the representation of a real situation occurs, with the purpose of protecting it, to alleviate external pressures and to allow representation to gain identity.

Peripheral system elements are linked to the central system, constituting the essential content representation, the dynamic of the whole vineyard. In their composition enter information collected from the environment, selected and analyzed, constructed reasoning about objects and the environment in which it exists, stereotypes and beliefs (abric, 1997: 118).