“Cultura Física”: o ensino de Educação Física no Instituto Pedagógico Campinense (década de 1930).

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the discourses that circulated in the Pedagogical Institute Campinense - CG, in the 1930s, addressing the implementation of the teaching of Physical Education in the city of Campina Grande. Therefore, we used as a source of research the newspapers: A Uniäo (1931), O Educador (1932), Brasil Novo (1931), revista de Ensino do Estado da Parai'ba (1932- 1937), e a revista Evolugäo (1931-1932), a publication of the Instituto Pedagögico Campinense that circulated in the city between the years 1931 and 1932, focusing on its pages, the everyday affairs of the Institute and topics related to politics, economy, hygiene, education and culture. Some of the documentation is in Biblioteca Atila de Almeida (Campina Grande), Instituto Pedagögico Campinense, Espago Cultural de Joäo Pessoa and Instituto Histörico e Geogräfico da Paraiba. Discussions about the practices of Physical Education were based in the historiography related to the topic, like Soares Junior (2011), in his studies on the teaching of Hygiene and Physical Education in the city of Parahyba in the early twentieth Century, Parada (2009), and Ghiraldelli Jr. (1991), which provide a better understanding about the implementation of the teaching of Physical Education in Brazil. The theoretical-methodological approach has relied on the approaches of a New Cultural History, from the discussions made by the French philosopher Michel Foucault (2010) emphasizing the concepts of discourse and discipline.