ABSTRACT
This research analyzes a historical problem which results are still effectives: the disputes over the legitimacy of the profession of Physical Education. The intention is to think how this practice was conceived and how it institutionalization guaranteed its reproduction. For that, dominant discourses of the passage from the 19th to the 20th century are studied, and how from that resulted two clearly defined epistemic positions, one “militaristic” and the other “civic-pedagogical”. Organized on the basis of five crucial events that took place between 1898 and 1912 about the institutionalization of the professionalization of Physical Education, it is analyze the contemporary voices of different agents linked to the pedagogization of corporal practices in Argentina.
Keywords:
physical education; professionalization; politics; body; institutionalization