Abstract
This study presents the assumption that the curriculum is not only an organization of subjects, nor a list of contents to be taught. It considers that the curriculum involves different actions of the educational process, from forms about the structure of school functioning, passing through the architecture and distribution of school times and spaces, the selection of knowledge, the organization and offer of teaching activities, the correction of body postures, to the speeches that end up saying what is expected or not from the subjects of education. Besides this, since it is a State policy, the process of selecting what will constitute the curriculum includes the project of subjects who will be educated for society. Thus, this article is part of a broader research on curriculum policies promoted by the Municipal Secretariat of Campinas. It takes as its object of investigation the municipality’s Curricular Guidelines for physical education. It analyzes the conceptions regarding the object of knowledge of physical education and the goals announced for the component. It considers document analysis as a method and uses curriculum theories and studies on curriculum policies to understand its effects. The results indicate that the Guidelines for the component present epistemological and didactic inconsistencies. This probably means that this situation will cause difficulties for the teaching practice and, thus, the dispute for the control of the teacher education policy agenda will intensify, favoring neoliberal political rationality.
Physical education; Curriculum; Curriculum policy; Neoliberalism