The aim of this study was to identify the body and corporeality conceptions shared by students attending a degree course in Physical Education at the State University of Londrina (UEL). By adopting a qualitative research paradigm in education as well as an anthropological approach of phenomenological nature, a field research was conducted through semi-structured interviews, which aimed at revealing information and knowledge. The sample was selected based on the proportional stratification of the population that comprised five last year's classes of the aforementioned course in the year of 2008, totalling 15 students, 10% of which corresponded to each separate class, namely: generalist bachelor's degree (CFE, 03/87) and current bachelor's degree (CNE 01 02/2002).After the analysis of the results, it was verified that the conception of body and corporeality assimilated by the students of the generalist bachelor's degree approximated to that of physical body - dualist and instrumental. The students of the current bachelor's degree are developing a conception of body and corporeality under the aegis of the paradigm of unity and totality, acknowledging that humans move intentionally.
Physical Education; Body; Corporeality
