This research investigates Sao Paulo’s press’s reaction to the institutionalization of Physical Education, exemplified by the establishment of the “Escola Superior de Educacao Physica”. The documents were collected from newspapers,… Click to show full abstract
This research investigates Sao Paulo’s press’s reaction to the institutionalization of Physical Education, exemplified by the establishment of the “Escola Superior de Educacao Physica”. The documents were collected from newspapers, mainly Correio Paulistano – a daily newspaper from that city. Thus, we describe a narrative about bodily practices present in journalistic discourses in the 1930s, revealing accessions to modernity and silences on certain traditions.
               
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