CURRICULUM FOR THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHING DEGREE AND THE MANUFACTURING OF A SUBJECT-CLIENT

ABSTRACT

Results from an ethnographical study aimed to understand how a physical education undergraduate curriculum at a private college institution promotes modes of subjectivation in order to produce identities of future teachers in times of struggle for social changes, and in the context of neoliberal impositions of being productive and efficient. Cultural studies from a poststructuralist perspective were adopted as a theoretical basis and Foucauldian archegenealogy grounded the analysis of documents and practices. Among the individuals affected by the curriculum in question, analyses continually fell on the production of the subject-client, using the notion of governmentality - understood as the art of governing oneself and others - as reference. As private colleges have certain objectives, the production of a subject-client requires the continuous reformulation of curricula and naturalizes regulatory strategies that aim at submitting every aspect of life to the rules of the market.

KEYWORDS:
curriculum; initial formation in physical education; higher education