O currículo da disciplina Educação Física: estudos documentais e interinstitucionais

Abstract

This Doctoral thesis was presented in articles forms, each one of them comments one of the methodological stages and the results of this research. In the beginning of each section the reader will find a specific summary of each article. The first article, entitled Physical Education: dilemmas of the discipline in the school side analyzes five master theses that take as their objects the physical education and its dilemmas in the disputed territory of the curriculum. The main dilemma is that Physical Education is represented such as space and moment, both associated to the universe of leisure in an institution that worths disciplines that are usually considered useful in the job market. Second article, entitled The Pedro II School, education reforms and physical education curriculum: from the 1980s to the first decade of the 21st century we in objective of historicize the Physical Education curriculum of the Pedro II School, based on the curricular documents elaborated by this institution. It was concluded that the vagueness of subjects and the lack of a prescriptive curriculum has withdrawn the Physical Education teaching from the unification of teaching proceedings and Teaching Units evaluation, perpetuating doing ways and not knowing ways.