EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA NO ENSINO MÉDIO: desvelando os sentidos do Corpo

Abstract

This dissertation, associated to the branch of research Education, Society and Culture, investigates which are the recurrences and meanings of the Body that are part of Physical Education in high school at the Goiás’ state school system, focusing mainly on the following theoretical and empirical corpus: Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture; David Le Breton’s sociology of the body; the knowledge about the theme produced from the year 2007 to 2016 that is available at the Database of Theses and Dissertations (BTD) of CAPES; the issues published between 2012 and 2016 of the academic publication Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte (RBCE); the national curriculum parameters; and the curriculum of Physical Education stablished by Goiás’ state high school system. Unquestionably, this is a relevant theme, with vast room for research. According to a critical-qualitative methodological standpoint, a bibliographical and documental corpus was selected. The data, interpreted in the light of the theoretical references mentioned, unveiled the meanings of the Body in each period of humanity’s history. In addition, the analysis of the documents indicated contradictions between the theoretical proposal of the curriculum of Physical Education stablished by Goiás’ high school system and its manifestation as a curricular matrix, thus allowing the verification of a clearly biologistic abduction of Physical Education in schools that, in this way, favors a view that is promoted by the media and the “industry of the body”.