In Physical Education classes is common that some students don't engage in body practices. Thus we have students at the margins of classes - at the "court's" periphery. Considering that isn't something natural, but it produced by school context, the objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between teaching practice in Physical Education and the production of the court's "periphery" (students at the margins of Physical Education classes). This is an ethnography survey conducted with a group of 7th grade students at a public school, with semi-structured interviews and observation as instruments to collect data. We conclude that the Physical Education teacher's pedagogical practice, predominantly non-directive, had a close relationship with the production of a court "periphery". Thus, the physical education classes, configured as a time and space of more freedom to students, ended up restricted to conformity.
Physical Education; pedagogical practice; method of teaching