Designing Moral, Healthy and Patriotic Subjects. Physical Education Teachers’ Training. Argentina, 1938–1967

Abstract

This article shows the political and ideological foundations as well as the disciplinary and pedagogical conceptions that characterized the school culture of the General Belgrano National Physical Education Institute as a new teacher education apparatus for the whole country. Its creation is interpreted as a local expression of a set of ideas that stressed training between renovation and conservation, and produced a number of rituals, a mystic and an esthetic that would last as a teaching model in the discipline over time. The research was based on the analysis of documents and interviews with graduates.

Keywords

• Educación física
• formación docente
• Argentina
• cultura escolar
• dispositivo