The institutionalization of the corporal pedagogy profession: The birth of certified teachers of physical education in Argentina (1897-1912) La institucionalización del oficio de pedagogizar los cuerpos: El nacimiento de la formación profesional en educación física en Argentina (1897-1912)

GALAK, EDUARDO LAUTARO

HISTóRIA DA EDUCAçãO

Associacao Sul Rio Grandense de Pesquisadores em Historia da Educacao

Año: 2019 vol. 23 p. 1 - 29

1414-3518

This research analyzes a historical problem which results are still effectives: the disputes over the legitimacy of the profession of Physical Education. The intention is to think how this practice was conceived and how it institutionalization guaranteed its reproduction. For that, dominant discourses of the passage from the 19th to the 20th century are studied, and how from that resulted two clearly defined epistemic positions, one "militaristic" and the other "civic-pedagogical". Organized on the basis of five crucial events that took place between 1898 and 1912 about the institutionalization of the professionalization of Physical Education, it is analyze the contemporary voices of different agents linked to the pedagogization of corporal practices in Argentina.