Critical-overcoming approach: the treatment of Physical Education as a transforming practice of social reality

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Wanderson Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EDUCAÇÃO: Teoria e Prática
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/15861
• topic: Educação Física. Abordagem Crítico-superadora. Luta de Classes.; Physical Education. Critical-overcoming Approach. Class Struggle.; Educación Física. Abordaje Crítico-superador. Lucha de Clases.

Grounded on a seminal work from the field of Physical Education this article contends that education is a social practice directly related to historical events that still affect the development of educational practices. It follows on from a qualitative bibliographical survey that focuses on the critical-overcoming approach, proposed in 1992 by a Coletivo de Autores and which offers elements for attaining a solid, democratic, public, and emancipatory education. It is concluded that endorsing the elements of body culture introduced by this theoretical framework amounts to demystifying Physical Education and education in general as a field of class struggle and disputes. Moreover, it is concluded that education is being treated as a commodity which operates under a neoliberal logic, hence promoting and naturalising social inequality and school failure.