A cultura na produção de conhecimento na educação física brasileira: centralidade ou periferia?

Abstract

This research chose it as central or peripheral theme. Thus, six researchers / physical education teachers who come thematising Brazilian culture in their theoretical productions were intentionally selected, which participated in the investigation by interviewing. The aim was to understand what the apprehension of each about culture in physical education, namely: Celi N. Z. Taffarel, Hugo R. Lovisolo, JocimarDaolio, Marcos G. Neira, Marco P. Stigger and ValterBracht. Based on theconcept of theculture centralityformulatedby Hall(1997), we sought tounderstandthe relationshipof this concept along with otherworksthat discussthe topic. Data analysis was performed with theoretical and methodological backgrounds of Bardin (2011), which assisted in the interpretation on two main themes: "the concept of culture" and "culture as central or peripheral." The research shows that for some researchers the culture is central to the production of physical education in Brazil, as well as central and peripheral assumes no condition to other parties, considering that it relates to other also important fields of knowledge and that this concept, in the area is characterized by polysemy and inaccuracies of theoretical fields. However, in addition to the reflections on the centrality or periphery of culture in physical education is an understanding of the ways in which culture is constructed and structure in the area, which requires radical in relation to knowledge produced and vigilanteexercise activity against the epistemological appropriation of knowledgeaimed to examine how culture is treated in the production of knowledge of physical education in Brazil, identifying whether the researchers.