Educating to overcome: A reflection upon Physical Education in schools

Abstract

This article comments on a syllabus directive for physical education in schools and its relations with our current historical moment. We consider social dynamics and local policies, the relationship between work and education, and the production of knowledge to be the criteria for analysis. We understand body culture to be the object of study and physical education to be a school subject. The proposition points to the urgent and continuous need for standing for quality public education and for a society that is different from the current one, with economic and social justice. KEY-WORDS: school education – political – pedagogical propositon – public policies.