As idéias psicopedagógicas e a espiritualidade no karate-do segundo a obra de Gichin Funakoshi

Abstract

Karate is a fight practice whose beginnings are unknown, but which developed highly in Okinawa, an island of the Nipponic archipelago. In early times, karate used to be a secret practice. It became a public practice in the twentieth-century, by the practice of Gichin Funakoshi, who named it karate-do, or "the way of empty hands". In doing so, he gave a doctrinal character to the art of karate, so that it could serve to develop a sense of personality and not just a way of fighting. In this study, we present a theoretical survey of the psychopedagogical ideas and spirituality of karate through the perspective of the cultural paradigms contained in Funakoshi's thought. The influence and complement of Confucian philosophy and Zen-Buddhism, in addition to the practice influenced by bushido, was made evident. This allows us to understand Funakoshi's thought regarding psychopedagogical ideas and spirituality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (journal abstract)