Infancy and School Knowledge:Principles for the Construction of Physical Education Practice For and With Children

Abstract

In this article we discuss the teaching of Physical Education for Chilldren at school, and we base our reflections on university teaching, research and extension projects that we developed as professors of the Physical Education Course at UFMG. We first approach Physical Education as a school field of knowledge and then we ask questions related to the education of teachers, identifying dillemas and the need for intervention and, in the last part, we highlight a few aspects related to infancy, here understood as a social-cultural construction and as a unique moment in the process of human growth. KEY WORDS: Physical Education - Infancy - School.