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.
Bodily education; Culture industry; Critical theory and sport; School sports; School physical education