It is about the deployment of research made with students whose major is Physical Education. It aims, in an ethnographic work, at understanding and analyzing the social imaginary of such students about their school experiences and initial formation. Through the empirical work discussed regarding the theoretical production about the thematic, as well as the other data that are built throughout the school process of future teachers. Those structures are expressed (with considerable force, certain conformism and conservatism) in the imaginary of the students in the formation process, what creates challenges and possibilities for the process of critical formation of Physical Education teachers working at schools.
School Physical Education; social imaginary; schooling; initial formation
