Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença (Jan 2019)

Somatic Education as an Inclusive Perspective in School Physical Education Classes

  • Fábio Soares da Costa,
  • Andreia Mendes dos Santos (Pontifícia Universidade Cató lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre/Brazil),
  • Janete de Páscoa Rodrigues (Universidade Federal do Piauí – UFPI, Teresina, Brazil)

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Somatic education, as a set of bodily techniques and a relational process that affects our biology, consciousness, and the environment can be developed in the school for pedagogical purposes. This education can further be constituted as a mean of including bodily, behavioral, and physical fitness diversities. This assertion induces the development of reflections on some Somatic Education experiments/researches in Brazil, aiming to initiate an epistemological discussion for new curricular proposals of Physical Education in Brazilian Schools that involve the principles of Somatic Education in their basic education.

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