Perspectiva
Print version ISSN 0102-5473
Abstract
SCHARAGRODSKY, Pablo. El padre de la educación física Argentina: fabricando una política corporal generizada (1900-1940). Perspectiva [online]. 2004, vol.22, n.numeroespecial, pp.83-119. ISSN 0102-5473.
The institution physical exercises at school in Argentina in the end of 19er century opened an entire field of knowledge on which educators, doctors and hygienists contributed to build a specific child corporal order. Among the intellectuals that collaborated in so process, appeared unquestionably Enrique Romero Brest. This Argentinean doctor participated actively, during the four initial decades of 20er century, in the development of a corporal politics to Argentinean school through Physical Education. His corporal politics was materialized up three great tactics. This article investigates Romero Brest’s work concerning how it contributed to configure a certain general order corporal. Therefore, the paper examines, on one hand, how physical exercises at school contributed in the configuration of masculine and feminine bodies and, on the other hand, how specific knowledge legitimated that corporal order.
Keywords : Physical Education; Study and Teaching; History; Argentina; Enrique Romero Brest (1873-1958).