A presença da Educação Física na escola de aperfeiçoamento: estratégia para formar o especialista (Belo Horizonte, 1927-1945)

Abstract

This study focuses on Physical Education at the Training and Development School of Belo Horizonte. It starts in 1927, when the Primary Education Reform was enforced in the State of Minas Gerais, having as one of its aims the establishment of that institution, and it ends in 1945 – the school’s last year of operation. It presents the hypothesis that the Training and Development School cultivated the need for specialization in education. In Physical Education, that experience dreamed of training teachers who specialized in that subject. In order to understand the teaching proposal for the discipline we examined the work of Renato Eloy de Andrade and Guiomar Meirelles Becker, who used to teach at the School, as well as former students Diumira Campos de Paiva and Alzira Farnezzi. The sources investigated included mainly State’s official documents.