Abstract
In association with its nation building projects, the imperial government in Brazil under monarchic rule took some concrete actions based on proposals for physical education. The aim of this article is to investigate the meanings and significations attributed to this subject in the legislation and the annual reports issued by the Ministry of Business of the Empire (1831-1889), giving special attention to Rio de Janeiro. The approach to the subject in the sources researched demonstrates that the views of physical education took shape through a web of ideas that associated moral, health and civilization conceptions, in a bid to deal with the concrete circumstances of a newly independent peripheral nation with a bureaucratic structure in the process of formation.
Highlights
When Brazil proclaimed its independence in 1822, what transpired to be a long process of debates about national projects and the nation’s identity started to take shape
Concerns were voiced about physical education: the Public Education Commission of the constituent assembly included it in their debates about the structuring of a Brazilian education system
Some writings were already in circulation on the subject, such as Tratado de educação física dos meninos, para uso da nação portuguesa [Treaty on physical education for boys, for use by the Portuguese nation] by a Brazilian physician, Francisco de Mello Franco, published in Portugal in 1790.1 what interests us more here is the discussion of the topic in the context of the constituent assembly of 1823, as it represents the nation’s leaders’ first contact with the subject as they led the country in its first steps as an independent state
Summary
MELO, Victor Andrade de; PERES, Fabio de Faria. The body of the nation: government positions on physical education during the Brazilian monarchy. Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.21, n.4, out.-dez.
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