The use of Content Analysis in scientific production of Brazilian Physical Education

Abstract

This research aimed to analyse the use of Content Analysis (CA) in scientific publications by journals in area of Physical Education in Brazil. The method was exploratory and descriptive;and analysis was carried out in an empirical corpus of 222 articles published between 2007 and2017. Main results suggested a growth in the use of that technique, i.e., being Laurence Bardinthe principal reference, as well as low rate of explanation attributed to chosen methodologicaltechnique. Therefore, CA has gained space in Physical Education field throughout years, asresearch has presented its practice in a brief form and it has used software support into thestage of analysis, even though it shows low representativeness