School physical education plc: Changes and subjectivities in the corporate rule

Abstract

This text presents a process of change in school Physical Education, in which external qualification, characterized by political and commercial interest groups, overlaps academic traditions. It demonstrates that, while academic traditions had been protagonists in public curriculum policies from the 1990s, with the promulgation of the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC; in Portuguese, base nacional comum corrucilar), new social actors and curricular products emerged and point towards a new sense for this discipline, characterized by a neoliberal rationality. In the end, we point to the danger of these changes, since the neoliberal discourse crosses the school space-time.