Abstract

MENDES, Maria Isabel Brandão de S.  and  NOBREGA, Terezinha Petrucia da. Epistemologies pointers of "Brazil-Medico": Education and Physical Education. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2015, n.56, pp.225-241. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.590/0101-4360.40471.

The article evidences relations between school education and Physical Education on the basis of the epistemologies pointers related to body care seeking health, present in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The empirical material used was the periodical "Brazil-Medico" in the period of 1887-1923. This study weaves reflections on the cares with health in education and it points elements on the systematization of Physical Education, having as its focus the rational method. It is concluded that Physical Education contributed with the internalization of body care in search of health in the pertaining to school education, calling the attention to the children's vivacity. The systematization of Physical Education through the rational method contributed with the recognition of the existence of physical culture, of body expressions, at a time when an education ruled in memorization and immobility prevailed.

Keywords : health; Physical Education; body.

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