Abstract

BONETTO, Pedro Xavier Russo; NEVES, Marcos Ribeiro das  and  NEIRA, Marcos Garcia. The treatment of differences in developmental, psychomotor and critical curricula for physical education. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2017, vol.12, n.2, pp.448-463. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.12i2.0009.

Difference, as cultural identity, appears as an urgent demand in the curricula for all school subjects. Therefore, this paper aims at identifying the treatment given to differences by some of the most relevant proposals in the physical education area. Three Brazilian works were analyzed for having influenced the dissemination of psychomotor (FREIRE, 1989), developmental (TANI et al., 1988) and critical-overcoming (SOARES et al.,1992) curricula. The results revealed a conservative perspective based (a) on the assimilation of differences or (b) on the humanistic appropriation supported by the belief of the equality principle disregarding issues such as ethnicity, genre or sexuality. The conclusion is that, in both cases, integrating the different cultural groups to the dominant culture is sought so that everybody can compete as equals in the modern capitalist society.

Keywords : Difference; Physical Education; Curriculum.

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