Percep？？es dos professores do desporto escolar sobre a rela？？o entre o sector escolar e o sector federado da Regi？o Autónoma da Madeira

the sports system law framework of autonomous region of madeira5 argues that school sports should be developed in articulation with the federated sport. the study carried out and presented hereunder had two main objectives: to determine if the teachers involved in school sports positions in madeira were also involved in the federated sector and also to identify their perceptions concerning the relationship that should exist between both sectors. the sample covered a total of 255 participants, representing 98% of the universe of teachers in school sports. the questionnaire used to collect the data was put together departing from the study of correia & rosado4 and adapted to madeira in accordance with its programme of activities7. data was processed with spss and the independence non-parametric technique of the chi-square (p=0.05). the results show a total of 117 teachers (45.9%) involved in the federated sector, and the positions of coach and football modality were the ones that scored the highest percentages, 73.5% and 30.7% respectively. the majority of the respondents (51.8%) think there should be a closer relationship, in the form of articulation and cooperation between the federated and school sector, against 24.7% who do not agree with this point of view, and 21.2% who chose not to express their position. the results also show significant differences between the group of teachers who were linked to federated sport and the group of teachers who had no connection with it (p=0.003). furthermore, from the 124 teachers who were not involved in the federal sector, 54 (43.5%) are in favour of a closer relationship between both sectors. in conclusion, the results suggest greater coordination and cooperation between the federated and school sectors.