HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE BODY EDUCATION AND THE TEACHING OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATION LAWS OF THE REPUBLICAN PERIOD

Abstract

This piece of work presents a bibliographic survey using the Bank of Theses of CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Personnel with University Degree) with the aim of analyzing the production and arguments in the areas of Education and Physical Education concerning Body Education and Physical Education Teaching. After we have localized one hundred and fifteen dissertations and theses produced since 1994 until 2008, we made a methodological choice of analyzing only the researches about legislation and/or educational institutions of Elementary and/or Secondary Education during the Republican period in our country. This choice led us to five theses and eight dissertations which abstracts and arguments we analyzed. We have divided the results in four moments: institutions, legislation and regions; time reference; theoretical and methodological references; and aims, discussions, results and conclusions. The topics we mention are important and considerable for Physical Education area, emphasizing that the contribution brought by the History of Education may amplify the investigation horizons because of the detailed observation of the documents and theoretical reference. We also consider essential expanding the investigations about daily school practices, subjects, experiences and cultures immersed in their social reality.