Concepções de educação física na Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte (1979 1986)

Abstract

Periodicals focused on physical education pedagogical content offer a prolific source of past material evidence, above all because they structure, convey, spread, and, therefore, legitimatize pedagogical and educational discourses that can reverberate in school practices. This presupposition underlies this research, which analyzes some issues of Sport Sciences Brazilian Journal aiming at identifying physical education conceptions and their links with the historical construction of this field of study, research, and pedagogical action. Methodological procedures included bibliographical research for theoretical foundation, analytical reading of the papers it published, and its graphic form between 1979 when it was created and 1986 when its first relevant editorial change occurred. Such an analytical reading and interpretation, which take the journal as subject matter and primary source, allows to assert that this journal became a publication searching for its graphic and editorial identity insofar as it consolidated itself as reading object. The papers it published featured an editorial construction in which physical education conceptions have roots in a technicist approach. It also published texts whose scientific feature were more critic. The link between the former perspective and this latter resulted from a change in the editorial board, which implied changing its editorial line. In other words, it happened when the educational dimension of physical educational stood out as a subject of the scientific thought.