Da cultura do corpo das crianças: Diferenças e significados produzidos nas aulas de educação física

Abstract

This paper looks into how children’s cultural dynamics during Physical Education classes produce distinctions and meanings concerning differentiation processes related to their bodies. An ethnographic study was undertaken with 26 students of a 4th grade class from a public school in the city of Jundiaí, Brazil. This procedure contributed to this paper’s discussions about the development of a body culture in Physical Education classes, since the differences produced and established by children are constantly changing and are related to specific knowledges in the field of Physical Education. We conclude that knew knowledges are built through pedagogical mediation regarding the differences produced by children, considering the cultural construction of children’s bodies and relativizing the marks produced in those bodies inside and outside school.