Educação como prática corporal dois decênios depois: (in)compreensões e contribuições (a)temporais

Abstract

This is a (critical/reflective) essay whose purpose was to (re)examine the book: Education as Corporal Practice, written by teachers: João Batista Freire and Alcides José Scaglia, published in the first years of the new millennium, more precisely in 2003, in order to (re)look at the context of its publication and its epistemological postulates, as the referred (academic) production symbolizes, in some way, the didactic/scientific strengthening of Physical Education as a curricular component in the school sphere , arising from an idiosyncratic (historical, cultural and social) scenario of the Brazilian republic. Therefore, scrutinizing it (through the “historical rear view mirror”), identifying its formative contributions, its epistemological premises and didactic-methodological implications could contribute (surmise) to the process of consolidation/improvement of this discipline in the present time (or perhaps reconnecting some to the historical fabric, or even introducing others to the scientific and formative debate), allowing, in turn, to observe possible unexplored flanks, without, however, incurring a possible contextual anachronism, considering everything what represented (and continues to symbolize) the book and its writers.