Abstract

PIRIZ, Rodrigo  and  CALDEIRO, Martín. PLAY AND EDUCATION: reflections about history of recreation in Uruguay. Rev. Exitus [online]. 2020, vol.10, e020024.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 2237-9460.  https://doi.org/10.24065/2237-9460.2020v10n0id1248.

This paper aims to do a reflection about the relationship between education and recreation in two specific moments of the 20th century in Uruguay, and it is the result of a meeting between two researches that focus on the history of recreation in the country and its connection with education. We start from a historical review that opposes a discourse on recreation linked to the market and the privatization of knowledge and materialized in a certain monopoly that revolves around the field of recreation, especially linked to its formation. We present the main empirical data on which it is possible to raise reflections on the meanings and practices put in place by Physical Education in Uruguay under the name of “recreation” or “recreational”, briefly addressing the discourses on body education contained in this element always diffuse in the field of education and seeking to produce new discourses to read the history of recreation in the country.

Keywords : Recreation; Game; Physical Education; Body education; History of education.

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