PHYSICAL EXERCISES IN THE NATIONAL COMMON CURRICULAR BASE: AN OUTSIDER IN THE PHYSICAL CULTURE'S NICHE

Abstract:

This article deals with the controversies surrounding the outstanding position of the physical exercise theme in the first version of the Brazilian National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), and its afterward repositioning as a gymnastics' subtheme in the second and third versions. It is theoretically and methodologically based on the Foucauldian discourse analysis and takes the three versions of the BNCC, the contributions of the public consultation promoted by the Ministry of Education from September 2015 to March 2016, and the opinions of critical readers as empirical materiality. It draws from the assumption that this debate brings back long-standing disputes between physical cultural and physical fitness perspectives on the purposes of Physical Education. It is concluded that the physical exercise programs are part of the physical culture that must be included in the list of Physical Education themes by the same criteria already applied to the other contents in the curriculum.

Keywords:
Physical education; Exercise; Curriculum