The Formation Of Conscious Bodies In Physical Education Classes From The Perspective Of Paulo Freire

Abstract

Freire's pedagogical thinking is endowed with a set of concepts that are “pregnant with the world” – because they generate worlds and pronounce new realities –, which has favored the expansion of formal and non-formal educational practices and contributed to the expansion of critical readings of the world in which educators have sought support for their concerns in his concepts. This essay is the result of a series of reflections on the work of Paulo Freire and his contributions to the field of Brazilian Physical Education. From this investigative process, “perennial” problems and questions emerged about the challenges of developing formative processes for the formation of conscious bodies in educational spaces, more specifically, in school Physical Education classes. Thus, in this study, we aimed to reflect on Paulo Freire's theoretical formulations on some principles that can guide teacher training in Physical Education with regard to building conscious bodies at school. We infer that the educational practice of building conscious bodies presents Physical Education teachers and the school community as a whole with the challenge of developing educational processes that lead students to understand the body in a broad way and not only through the bias of institutionalized rationalism, which often annihilates the other senses, since a strong non-corporal rationality can be seen in educational institutions.