A emergência da educação física no discurso educacional brasileiro (1925-1935)

Abstract

This doctoral thesis deals with the emergence of physical education in the Brazilian educational discourse between 1925 and 1935. As an object of research, we delimit the referred subject in the pedagogical press, in which the publications “A Escola Primaria” (1916-1938), “Revista Escolar” (1925-1927) and “Revista do Ensino” (1925-1940) stand out, with the aim of analyzing the discursive strategies on that discipline and understanding the training project engendered by the elite for the creation of new citizens. For this purpose, we operate Foucauldian concepts such as “event”, “discipline”, “biopolitics”, “normalization”, “power” and “emergency”, as we consider that the processes linked to modernization constitute events in which different powers and objects, existing until now, emerge in a privileged and authorized way to act in the production of truths and, from a broader point of view, receive the normalizing function of life and sociocultural phenomena. In the intersection about different discourses of biological order and the human sciences, we seek to demonstrate the mechanisms that allowed physical education to constitute itself as truth about the maintenance of life and the production of a way of exercising it, active and useful, and, at the limit of discourse, transformed/regenerated in its biological, social and cultural energies. Among the strategies used, we highlight the discourse located between hygiene and eugenics, in order to delimitate customs and disseminate desirable practices that make physical education emerge as a security technology in defense of society, based on the policy of social regeneration.