KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION ABOUT CORPORAL PRACTICES IN BRAZILIAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION BETWEEN 2012 AND 2022.

Abstract

The present study addresses the place of the bodily practices category in the recent production of knowledge in Physical Education, focusing on three journals in the area linked to the field of human and social sciences. Thus, the general objective is to understand the place of the bodily practices category in articles that deal with school Physical Education, published between 2012 and 2022 in scientific journals in the area. Methodologically, using the technique of content analysis and using the key search term for the material called “Body Practices and School Physical Education”, we studied fourteen works published in the Magazines: Movimento, Conexões and Corpoconsciência. Thus, as an explanatory synthesis of this research movement, we formulated the following explanatory categories: 1) Body Practices and issues of Diversity, Sexuality and Religiosity; 2) Other bodily practices and transversalities; 3) Body practices and School Physical Education. The study points to the diversification of debates around the notion of bodily practices when connected with school Physical Education in contemporary times. Therefore, the discussion highlights a certain accumulation in the area of Physical Education in conceiving bodily practices as an object of knowledge of the discipline at school, as well as the emergence of issues of diversity and the demand for the diversification of bodily experiences provided by the school curriculum.