A TEORIA/CONCEPÇÃO SISTÊMICA: UMA PERSPECTIVA CRÍTICA NA PEDAGOGIA

Abstract

The initial aim of this paper was to report the book Educação Física e sociedade,mainly the systemic conception of physical education. As this article enlarged its limits, it enclosed other productions in the field of “sociology of physical education” with the epistemological, political and pedagogical elements of this theory. We realized that: a) it points out methodological elements which contribute to the critical discourse of physical education; b) it presents characteristics of a critical discourse as well as a conservative attitude; c) it presents a sociological perspective based on a systemic theory with restrictive elements to the development of a “sociology of physical education”. KEY WORDS: Systemic conception, sociology, physical education.