Educação física : reconstituição da corporalidade

Resumo Ingles

To overcome the identity crisis in Physical Education, a study must he in carried out in three ways, which simultaneously take into account: the rebuilding of the body concept, parting wich atomistic and mechanical views in search of unicity for the being; transcoding of historical and procedural features assumed by the body in its ideological relationship with axiological and structural principles of capitalist society; and last, the building from a theoretical framework based upon the previous stages, of a new paradigmatic atitude towards the investigation of body characteristics. The non-associative character of humam existence becomes evident from clarification of the reciprocal interaction established between thought, feeling and movement, The role performed by the child’s sensory-motion in the development of cognition structures (Piaget) is analyzed, as well as the tonic-emotional variable in the child’s process of aprehending reality (Wallon), with the intention of providing a dialectical view of man against the utmost dualism so familiar to western science. The social building thus ideological of the body in pointing out its condition of a domination object, requires the identification of power elements inherent to the body V effectiveness by Physical Education, whereas it transmits a System of ideas, feelings and habits related to the body which direct ways of behaving and consuming, ways of being end thinkingWith basis on those conceptual assumptions, a historical and documental analysis is carried out, in order to study the Pysical Education curriculum, verifying the conception of man which is present in the theoretical background of its profissional providing, as well a diagnosis for the different interests associated to their practice. Taking into account those questions, Phisical Education must adopt a new dialectical paradigm, which reshapes the universe of its knowledges, providind it with scientific consistence and maturity.