ABSTRACT
This paper has analyzed the constitution of three pedagogical models at Brazilian Physical Education, from the latter decades of the 19th century to the 1980s, putting into contrast the body orthopedics, gesture efficiency, and sports-oriented science as distinct disciplinary ways of producing meaning for Physical Education. We prioritized written sources, especially those that address pedagogical methods and guidelines, besides policy organizing documents. The material analyzed and the dialog with field historiography allowed us to put into work the notion of pedagogical model settled by Marta Carvalho (2011), and a watchful eye to the lexicon has contributed to the composition of each one of them, for a few keywords were significant clues in the comprehension of the historical processes investigated. The analysis required to identify in the representation on Physical Education the interlocutions with other countries, evincing multiple practices of circulation and appropriation present in educating the body, at school and outside it.
Keywords:
History of Physical Education; Pedagogical Models; Physical Education Teaching; Teacher Training; Body Education