THE BODY(S) AT SCHOOL

FROM TECHNICIAN EDUCATION TO AN EMANCIPATORY EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Abstract

This article is the product of a cycle of conversations between members of the Study and Research Group on Gender, Sexualities and Differences in the various time spaces of History and Daily Life - GESDI (FFP/UERJ/SG). We seek to present a look at the bodies in schools from the history of technical education present in the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil, discussing their permanence and possible ruptures. We present Korfball as an emancipatory school sports practice, which breaks the sexist logic that prevails in school spaces and a tacit non-formal contract between students divided into groups of boys and girls that reproduces and reflects power relations present in society. We, question why school sports courts are predominantly occupied by male students? In what way does school physical education contribute to the reproduction of the sex/gender system and the social hierarchies and violence that result from it? And what are the possibilities of changing this binary and heteronormative look to the school environment and its sports court? To answer these questions, we bring to the debate our readings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, we dialogue with the historiography of technicist education and we analyze some images present in the school collection of Escola Municipal Orsina da Fonseca.