DIVERSITY AT THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES: Gender, Race and Refugees in discussion

This book is very special for us from the extension project “Práticas pedagógicas em educação física escolar: outras possibilidades” (Pedagogic practices in school Physical Education: Other possibilities) because it represents our staff’s effort to organize and operate the training of teachers in a quite complex period. It is of ultimate relevance in a teacher’s training to think about education beyond the classroom walls through incentives to research and extension. We will present here an experience in teachThrough the aforementioned extension project, we organized and offered free “Rodas de conversa” (conversation groups) for Physical Education teachers and teachers-in-training, and educators in general. Three groups were operated, which included the following topics: genre, race and Refugees. The “Rodas de Conversas” (Conversation Circles), also called “Círculos de Cultura” (Culture Circles) by Paulo Freire, aimed to analyze inclusive democratic pedagogic practices which enable us to anticipate, question, and get over potential difficulties of didactic and epistemological nature, which will be used in person or remotely in Physical Education lessonser training that was thought out and operated remotely during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2021 school year. Through the aforementioned extension project, we organized and offered free “Rodas de conversa” (conversation groups) for Physical Education teachers and teachers-in-training, and educators in general. Three groups were operated, which included the following topics: genre, race and refugees. The “Rodas de Conversas” (Conversation Circles), also called “Círculos de Cultura” (Culture Circles) by Paulo Freire, aimed to analyze inclusive democratic pedagogic practices which enable us to anticipate, question, and get over potential difficulties of didactic and epistemological nature, which will be used in person or remotely in Physical Education lessons.