O ensino de dança na educação física: prescrições históricas e escolarização

Abstract

From the prescriptions and teaching projects produced for educational institutions, such as the school and teacher training courses, in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil, there is a set of clues, traces and memories that have in these spaces the perspective of movements. . of meanings of discourses and practices about the body to be educated. The teaching of dance in curricular prescriptions in Minas Gerais is characterized by body education through the learning of “courtesies”, “graceful positions”, “rhythm”, the acquisition of “health and hygiene”. A movement that in the Education Legislation of Minas Gerais, begins in the reform of 1925, in which dance is included as one of the school practices of the contents of the so-called Physical Exercises, which also make up the educational proposal. The dance in the Minas Gerais school culture, present in school parties and parties, is distinguished from the considered modern manifestations, which in this period were expressed in ballrooms, but they glimpsed their relationship as knowledge for social life.