A recreação e o lazer como saberes em construção nas escolas iniciais de educação física de Minas Gerais (1952 a 1962)

Abstract

The objective of this research was to understand the discourses related to recreation in the Escola de Educação Física de Minas Gerais (EEFMG), from 1952 to 1962. We analyzed the manifest speeches about the recreation before this to be disciplinarized in the EEFMG. The appreciation of the data found occurred through discourse analysis under the archaeological perspective of Foucault. Analyzing the discourses, we noted that the meanings about recreation were demarcated by the statements of interest and pleasure. It was evidenced an association between games, recreation and childhood, where a technical and methodological approach would be manifested. Recreation is related to biological, psychological and sociological discourses and would be an attempt to overcome a biological perspective present in the formation of the time.