As Representações da formação de professores e das práticas de educação física escolar contidas nas páginas da Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte, no período de 1979 a 1991

Abstract

This paperwork aims to analyze how the training of teachers and the practices of Physical Education were represented in the Brazilian Journal of Sports Sciences from 1979 to 1991. The temporal cut in the year 1979 is justified by the signaling period of creation and publication of the first volume of the Journal. In 1991 correspond to the last volume of the non-thematized Magazine publication, and since 1992 editions began to be organized through specific themes. The research has as reference the thought of Chartier (2002) based on the concept of representations. It also reports to a literature related to the study of printed matter to the History of Education and to the area of Physical Education. The methodology used in this research was a documentary one, since it takes as its source the 33 editions of the Journal that circulated from 1979 to 1991. With this research it was possible to verify that this Journal was a scientific one for the Physical Education area and Sports Sciences, edited and published quarterly by the Brazilian College of Sports Sciences since September 1979. To verify that the articles on the theme of teacher training published in the journal in the period were represented by a Physical Education of Competitivist character, now oriented towards a conception of Physical Education, as a philosophical, progressive one and to observe that the articles on the subject of Physical Education practices published in the magazine were represented discussing debates that circulated around Physical Education in the late 1970 and early 1980, dealing with the conceptions of Physical Education and debating practices around it focused on Higher Education and also with studies directed to the schools of the 1st grade and the Pre-School, at the time. Thus, this study contributed to the construction of a representation on how the Teacher's Training and Physical Education practices were configured, registered in a cultural object constructed by the periodical scientific press, of the late 1970 and early 1990.