Physical Education professional practice and teacher education in Brazil:  historical analysis of public policies and recommendations for advancing professional practice and teacher education

Samuel de Souza Neto,Larissa Cerignoni Benites,Luiz Gustavo Bonatto Rufino

doi:10.33448/rsd-v9i10.8630

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the process by which public policy relating to Physical Education Teacher Education in Brazil is developed, highlighting both the most important advances and the issues that still need to be better understood and evolved. To that end, from an interpretative research approach, we analyzed documents related to several laws and guidelines of Brazilian public policy. The results focus on the relation between Physical Education in Brazil and the field of public policies in a historical analysis and its intersection with a sociological perspective. This article concludes that although the field of Physical Education has achieved greater social importance in public policies, there are still several challenges that it must overcome to achieve social legitimacy. Further studies in this approach are therefore necessary to shed light on what is not apparent but is nevertheless part of "how the game is played".

Highlights

This study aims to analyze the process by which public policy relating to Physical Education Teacher Education in Brazil is developed, highlighting both the most important advances and the issues that still need to be better understood and evolved
This study focuses on the relation between public policies in the field of education and the professional training of Physical Education teachers in Brazil
We begin from the understanding that the concept of public policy in education intends to resolve problems and the demand for the need to compose an agenda and intentional actions

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Public policies can be understood as a set of programmes, actions, and activities undertaken by the state with the participation of public and/or private organizations. Their main aim is to ensure citizens' rights and that can provide focus for government institutions, organizations and actions (Souza, 2006). These policies operate relations that are situated within a particular social context and whose modus operandi is intrinsically related to the characteristics and history of the place where it is inserted (Bourdieu, 1997)

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