Abstract

SILVA, Alan Camargo  and  FERREIRA, Jaqueline. “Educated” body: pedagogical acting of Physical Education teachers in gyms. Rev. Motriviv. [online]. 2020, vol.32, n.63, e76554.  Epub Oct 20, 2020. ISSN 2175-8042.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8042.2020.e76554.

Health providers draw on technical-scientific knowledge tied to the biomedical rationality to develop their work as educators and intervenors. It is known in the body practices settings, especially in fitness spaces, that there is a biologizing education of the body by those who conduct the lessons and the practicing activities. This essay is aimed to analyze and question how Physical Education teachers, as health providers, educate the body in gyms. This paper analyses in what extent these teachers’ intervention in health by means of physical exercises in gyms takes in consideration social issues or biological factors of their attendees only.

Keywords : Physical education and training; Healthcare professional; Gyms; Health education; Bodily practices.

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