This article presents results of a research that sought to investigate aspects of bodily education, focusing in a program of School Sports for boys and girls from a public school in Florianópolis, Brazil. Systematic observations were made of the contexts of training sessions and competitions, apart from discursive interviews and some data gathering about the institution. Results were organized in three major analysis categories. The first of them was called Punishments, penalties and sacrifices. It relates to the way found by coaches to deal with the dynamics of reprehension and encouragement of their teams. The second category, entitled Human formation versus The dream of professionalization, describes the role of representations and expectations about football (soccer) for children, in contrast to the formation that school and sport promise to afford them. The choice of the third category was a consequence of the constant presence of rituals in the organized bodily practices, with special attention here to sport. It was denominated Rituals as technique. The final considerations of the article suggest an interpenetration of rituals, future expectations and moralist questions involved in sport, pointing to the prevalence of interests of control. Additionally, they suggest the mimetism of the conventional sport practices with the mediation of the culture industry.

Since the 1980s there has been a certain fascination with the theme of the reflective/researching teacher. Little is said, however, that this discussion is part of a larger one, which criticizes positivism and rationality. Following the tradition of Critical Social Theory, some theoretical and methodological assumptions were discussed in order to then reflect on the teaching practice and the school context in which this author is inserted. Violence and indifference as inherent to the civilizing process, of which education is part, and the confrontation of the contradictions between the teacher’s being and “must be” as an antidote to the reproduction of barbarism, appear as central themes. The use of records and memories of the period of initiation to teaching and insertion in the work environment (years 2019 and 2020) was made, with attention to my doing teaching and a latent “teacher must be” in daily school life, in its interconnections with social and cultural aspects. In the elaboration work (cognitive and affective) of the experience, the little rationality prevailing in the school space was one of the key points of the analysis, revealing itself, among others: the insistence on rhetoric and educational postulates, at the expense of denying reality; the predominance of the principle of competition, especially among peers and with singularities that relate to gender issues; and the difficulty of facing violence in physical education classes. It ends with some notes on teacher self-reflection, especially the urgency that the ethical-political principle overlaps merely instrumental/performative objectives in this process.

RESUMO: Desde os anos 80, há certo fascínio pelo tema do professor reflexivo/pesquisador. Pouco se diz, contudo, que essa discussão é parte de uma com escopo maior, de crítica ao positivismo e à racionalidade. Seguindo a tradição da Teoria Crítica da Sociedade, discorreu-se sobre alguns pressupostos teóricos-metodológicos para então refletir sobre a prática docente e a conjuntura escolar em que esta autora se insere. A violência e a indiferença como inerentes ao processo civilizador de que a Educação faz parte, e o enfrentamento das contradições entre ser e “deve ser” docente como um antídoto à reprodução da barbárie, aparecem como temas centrais. Fez-se uso de registros e memórias do período de iniciação à docência e inserção no ambiente de trabalho (anos de 2019 e 2020), com atenção ao meu fazer docente e um “dever ser professora” latente no cotidiano escolar, em suas interconexões com aspectos sociais e culturais. No trabalho de elaboração (cognitiva e afetiva) da experiência, a pouca racionalidade imperante no espaço escolar foi um dos pontos chave da análise, se revelando, entre outros: na insistência na retórica e nos postulados educacionais, ao preço de negação da realidade; na predominância do princípio da concorrência, sobretudo entre pares e com singularidades que remetem a questões de gênero; e na dificuldade de se enfrentar a violência nas aulas de educação física. Encerra-se com alguns apontamentos sobre autorreflexão docente, especialmente a urgência de que nesse processo o princípio ético-político se sobreponha a objetivos meramente instrumentais/performáticos.

O trabalho é resultado parcial do projeto Teoria Crítica, Racionalidades e Educação II, financiado pelo CNPq (Auxílio pesquisa, bolsas de produtividade em pesquisa, mestrado, apoio técnico, iniciação científica).

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