Physical Education and Television: Reflections on Sensitivity, Technology and Knowledge

Abstract

This research study stems from the principle that knowledge in Physical Education is eminently experiential and it recognizes that information technology and, most specifically, mass communication is capable of transmitting information to a large audience and modifying the experience of body practices as they are thematized by Physical Education. In this sense this research study aims at analyzing how technological equipment, specially television, interferes in the apprehension of knowledge in Physical Education, based on the reflection about sports. We have thus cast an aesthetic eye on sports as television shows and we have used content analysis to work on discourses from professionals. We have also pointed to the need of revising some of the concepts that are akin to the area, such as body, sensitivity, and knowledge. KEYWORDS: sports – Physical Education – technology.