Curriculum and Physical Education: an analysis of the document of 1978 Minas Gerais

Abstract

In the mid-1980, it emerged in the field of Physical Education (PE) the known renovating movement. It is a period strongly marked by the influence of the critical theorizations about the area, its teachers and its productions, as well as on the elaboration of curricular documents. Having found potentialization from the political reopening period of Brazil, to the end of the military dictatorship, the said movement has been considered by the scholars of the area as a moment of paradigm break, that is, the EF went on to no longer be guided by the practice Exclusively for the development of physical fitness in the school interior. This post, the present work aims to analyze the curriculum of PE School of Minas Gerais, published in 1978 by the secretariat of State of Education of Minas Gerais. Through a qualitative approach to content analysis, we verified the solid presence of the traditional theorizations of curriculum inside, however, we highlight clear indications of the critical debate that inspired the quoted movement. In the structure, we present the methodological description of the research, a synthesis of the curricular theorizations and the contextualization of education and EF in the 1970. The analysis is illuminated by theoretical references enshrined in education and EF. Finally, we maintain that the mining document, at the height of the military government, had already presented indications of a tension, which sought more critical paths for EF in schools.