A questão ambiental nos cursos de graduação em Educação Física no estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Environmental education started to be discussed since the intensification of the human activity, as a consequence of the industrial revolution. In Brazil, the proposal has gained attention due to the National Environmental Policy, which suggested inserting environmental education in all education levels and later as a crosscutting topic pervading the contents offered in all courses, according to the National Curricula Parameters. Faced with such a challenge, this work aimed to identify how environmental concerns is being considered in physical education licentiate courses at Rio Grande do Norte. For this purpose, we have adopted a descriptive method starting from interviews with coordinators of six institutions offering a physical education licentiate degree (UFRN, UNI-RN, UNIFACEX, FANEC, and UERN – Mossoró and Pau dos Ferros Campi), the application of a questionnaire with 30% of graduating students in the second half of 2015, and observations from the pedagogical projects and syllabi of the institutions that have provided such documents. Results have pointed out the acknowledgement of students and coordinators on the importance of addressing environmental concerns in physical education. However, coordinators and students contradict each other in all investigated institutions. According to the coordinators, environmental education effectively is in some courses of the curriculum as a mandatory requirement from the Brazilian National Ministry of Education. Nonetheless, in practice, most graduating students have no knowledge about environmental education in their courses, stating that they do not have training suited to meet these concerns. When requested to exemplify how they would deal with environmental education, a fragile education to address this topic in their future workspaces was revealed, showing uncritical activities. Despite the obligatoriness in the educational context already exists for decades and the importance of this topic revealed in the speeches of professionals, environmental education is still shy in physical education curricula and education courses, thereby showing the need of a curricular restructuration and a new understanding on this topic, as well as making it to be more present in the daily activities of the future teachers who should take it into consideration in their classes.

A questão ambiental nos cursos de graduação em Educação Física no estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Environmental education started to be discussed since the intensification of the human activity, as a consequence of the industrial revolution. In Brazil, the proposal has gained attention due to the National Environmental Policy, which suggested inserting environmental education in all education levels and later as a crosscutting topic pervading the contents offered in all courses, according to the National Curricula Parameters. Faced with such a challenge, this work aimed to identify how environmental concerns is being considered in physical education licentiate courses at Rio Grande do Norte. For this purpose, we have adopted a descriptive method starting from interviews with coordinators of six institutions offering a physical education licentiate degree (UFRN, UNI-RN, UNIFACEX, FANEC, and UERN – Mossoró and Pau dos Ferros Campi), the application of a questionnaire with 30% of graduating students in the second half of 2015, and observations from the pedagogical projects and syllabi of the institutions that have provided such documents. Results have pointed out the acknowledgement of students and coordinators on the importance of addressing environmental concerns in physical education. However, coordinators and students contradict each other in all investigated institutions. According to the coordinators, environmental education effectively is in some courses of the curriculum as a mandatory requirement from the Brazilian National Ministry of Education. Nonetheless, in practice, most graduating students have no knowledge about environmental education in their courses, stating that they do not have training suited to meet these concerns. When requested to exemplify how they would deal with environmental education, a fragile education to address this topic in their future workspaces was revealed, showing uncritical activities. Despite the obligatoriness in the educational context already exists for decades and the importance of this topic revealed in the speeches of professionals, environmental education is still shy in physical education curricula and education courses, thereby showing the need of a curricular restructuration and a new understanding on this topic, as well as making it to be more present in the daily activities of the future teachers who should take it into consideration in their classes.

O centro de Fortaleza como lugar de moradia

The present study has the objective of analyzing how the ways of dwelling influences the uses and the functional and symbolic appropriations of the urban space in Fortaleza city center, through the perspective of the residents and their relation with the living place. Scenarios of development and degradation of its urban space have marked the city center of Fortaleza. The intensification of the commercial and services occupation promoted through the years, paradoxically, the valorization of the land price and the devalorization of the residential use. Thus, the residential occupation was consolidated in a discontinuous way, being concentrated mainly in the external limits of the historical core of the neighborhood. The research is structured over the delimitation of an area and the selection of multifamily residential buildings, built since the 1960s, close to the central core of the neighborhood. The spatial configuration analysis of the selected residential buildings, and their relations with the urban surroundings and the land uses, reveals different aspects related to the urban vitality, producing impacts over the ways of dwelling constituted by the daily life of the residents. The study of the ways of dwelling involves the comprehension that the dwelling is beyond the private residential boundaries and the functional occupation. The conceptual base of this research is developed over the perspective that the dwelling represents a fundamental aspect of the human condition, allowing the person to relate with the space in an essential way (HEIDEGGER, 2012). In this perspective of the dwelling, the space reunites the mental and the cultural, the social and the historical, being marked by simultaneous logics of the conceived, the perceived and the lived space (LEFEVBRE, 2006). The development of this study, over the point of view of the neighborhood residents, is inserted in the perspective of the lived space, related to the concept of place, understood as a qualitative phenomenon, giving essence and identity to the space. The place of dwelling, marked by coexistences, is one of the structural elements of the urban land use, and potential for the rehabilitation of the central areas in big cities. Therefore, the study starts from the hypothesis that the location, the nearby land uses and the spatial configuration of the residential buildings affect the ways of dwelling, in other words the residents dissolve the boundaries of the shelter and experience the urban space, from the dwelling place. The requalification of the dwelling is opposed to the residential space based in functionality, in hierarchy, in self sufficiency, in standardization and in the reproduction of the urban space, materialized in the dense contemporary residential buildings, that are unrelated to the city. The stages of the research involved the spatial configuration analysis of the selected residential buildings and their surrounding, the land use mapping and interviews with the residents. The collected data allowed verifying that the buildings are located in areas presenting heterogeneous land uses, with a great number of residents and users. However, these aspects are not sufficient to promote the vitality of the public spaces in the neighborhood, since the people movement in the streets is controlled by the opening hours of the predominant commercial use in the area. The word of the residents, collected in interviews, indicate that the conservation conditions of the public spaces and the insecurity influences their everyday relations with the place of dwelling, affecting fundamental aspects for the dwelling requalification in the central area of Fortaleza.

O centro de Fortaleza como lugar de moradia

The present study has the objective of analyzing how the ways of dwelling influences the uses and the functional and symbolic appropriations of the urban space in Fortaleza city center, through the perspective of the residents and their relation with the living place. Scenarios of development and degradation of its urban space have marked the city center of Fortaleza. The intensification of the commercial and services occupation promoted through the years, paradoxically, the valorization of the land price and the devalorization of the residential use. Thus, the residential occupation was consolidated in a discontinuous way, being concentrated mainly in the external limits of the historical core of the neighborhood. The research is structured over the delimitation of an area and the selection of multifamily residential buildings, built since the 1960s, close to the central core of the neighborhood. The spatial configuration analysis of the selected residential buildings, and their relations with the urban surroundings and the land uses, reveals different aspects related to the urban vitality, producing impacts over the ways of dwelling constituted by the daily life of the residents. The study of the ways of dwelling involves the comprehension that the dwelling is beyond the private residential boundaries and the functional occupation. The conceptual base of this research is developed over the perspective that the dwelling represents a fundamental aspect of the human condition, allowing the person to relate with the space in an essential way (HEIDEGGER, 2012). In this perspective of the dwelling, the space reunites the mental and the cultural, the social and the historical, being marked by simultaneous logics of the conceived, the perceived and the lived space (LEFEVBRE, 2006). The development of this study, over the point of view of the neighborhood residents, is inserted in the perspective of the lived space, related to the concept of place, understood as a qualitative phenomenon, giving essence and identity to the space. The place of dwelling, marked by coexistences, is one of the structural elements of the urban land use, and potential for the rehabilitation of the central areas in big cities. Therefore, the study starts from the hypothesis that the location, the nearby land uses and the spatial configuration of the residential buildings affect the ways of dwelling, in other words the residents dissolve the boundaries of the shelter and experience the urban space, from the dwelling place. The requalification of the dwelling is opposed to the residential space based in functionality, in hierarchy, in self sufficiency, in standardization and in the reproduction of the urban space, materialized in the dense contemporary residential buildings, that are unrelated to the city. The stages of the research involved the spatial configuration analysis of the selected residential buildings and their surrounding, the land use mapping and interviews with the residents. The collected data allowed verifying that the buildings are located in areas presenting heterogeneous land uses, with a great number of residents and users. However, these aspects are not sufficient to promote the vitality of the public spaces in the neighborhood, since the people movement in the streets is controlled by the opening hours of the predominant commercial use in the area. The word of the residents, collected in interviews, indicate that the conservation conditions of the public spaces and the insecurity influences their everyday relations with the place of dwelling, affecting fundamental aspects for the dwelling requalification in the central area of Fortaleza.

Corpos Queer e a experiência da sexualidade: notas para o conhecimento da educação física

This study had the goal of make a dialogue between queer theory and the thoughts of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the categories of body and sexuality. From this dialogue, other goals were designed, namely: identify possible recurrences of the experience of bodies and queer sexualities, designed under Merleau-Ponty’s perspective, to the knowledge of Physical Education and reflect on this domain of knowledge using the notions of queer epistemology and esthesia. The study had as methodology the phenomenological attitude proposed by Merleau-Ponty and use the reduction as technic of research. Trying linking these thoughts we used the cinema of the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar as perceptive strategy, an exercise of look as possibility of reading the world and new ways of perceiving the human being. We appreciate three films, namely: All About My Mother (1999), The Skin I Live In (2011) and Bad Education (2004), which put us in touch with bodies and queer sexualities, with the body of esthesia, of the ecstasy, sensations and lived experiences, un type of art whose contours are not fixed or determinable, postulate by Merleau-Ponty. The philosopher, provide a rich conceptual view of the body and their sexual experience, extends and opens horizons of thought and reflection about queer experience, one experience indeterminate and contingent as a singular way of inhabiting the world. Those horizons opened by the philosopher and added to the queer perspective contribute to put in question the modes of knowledge production and the knowledge about body and sexuality in Physical Education. Finally, we point that this theoretical conversation give us clues to reflect about the reverberations of a queer epistemology for Physical Education usiging one type of knowledge guided by esthesia and sensitivity as marks of another scientific rationality.

Processo identitário profissional: as experiências formativas de licenciandos do curso de Física - UFPI

In this research, we have as study object the identification process with the profession of students of the Undergraduate course for preparing professors for teaching Physics of the Federal University of Piauí. We start from the following question: - What relationships can be established among the senses given by the students to the group of the experiences lived in their initial formation and the identity construction as teacher? The presupposition is that the process of identification with the profession can contain formative experiences that are impossible to be reduced to the situations of disciplines learning. We considered that, in the development of the process of professional identification, the articulations and the connections that the students established with themselves, with the others - their formative teachers, managers - and with the world - the University, the public school - they should be understood in the interdependence relationships, consubstantiated in the experiences lived during the initial stage of their formation. Therefore, our objective is to understand the process of identification of the students with the teaching profession, based in the senses given to their formative experiences. In order to get this aim, we used the methodology of the Comprehensive Interview, and we chose as methodological and theoretical principles: the multi-referential theoretical framework, 'configuration and interdependence', the relationship among 'identity and alterity', the sensitive hearing and the 'intellectual craft'. The study is organized in two parts: the first, contains two chapters, that have introductory character. The second part is unfolded in five chapters, and it constitutes the development of the thesis. In the "paths", we revealed, starting from the actions and intentions that mobilized the students, processes involved in the choice of the course, and, this way, the initial identifications with the being an university student. We looked for to identify possible dissonances among the curriculum 'instituted and instituting', as well as the implications of its management of the formative experiences of future teachers. In short, we tried to capture, through the speeches of a group of students, the signs, the images and the senses of their formative experiences, which indicate as a vision of how their teaching profession is built. With this study, we sought to contribute for the researches on the field of degrees, taking as axis the formative processes that configure those courses. Finally, that the proposition of professor formation politics should be fundamentally based in internal demands, lived in the formative processes.

Efeitos do treino de marcha em esteira com adição de carga ao membro inferior não parético de indivíduos com acidente vascular cerebral: ensaio clínico controlado e randomizado

Introduction: Gait after stroke is characterized by a significant asymmetry between the lower limbs, with predominant use of the non-paretic lower limb (NPLL) over using the paretic lower limb. Accordingly, it has been suggested that adding load/weight to the NPLL as a form of restricting the movement of this limb may favor the use of the paretic limb, reducing interlimb asymmetry. However, few studies have been conducted up to this moment, which only investigated the immediate effects of this practice. Objectives: 1) Investigating whether there is an influence of adding load to the NPLL during treadmill training on cardiovascular parameters and on gait performance of individuals with stroke, compared to treadmill training without load addition; 2) Analyzing the effects of treadmill training with and without load added to the NPLL on kinematic parameters of each lower limb during gait; 3) Analyzing the effects of treadmill training with and without load added to the NPLL on measurements of functional mobility and postural balance of these patients. Materials and Methods: This is a randomized single blinded clinical trial involving 38 subjects, with a mean age of 56.5 years, at the subacute post-stroke phase (with mean time since stroke of 4.5 months). Participants were randomly assigned into an experimental group (EG) or control group (CG). EG (n= 19) was submitted to gait training on a treadmill with the addition of load to the NPLL by ankle weights equivalent to 5% of body weight. CG (n= 19) was only submitted to gait training on a treadmill. Behavioral strategies which included home exercises were also applied to both groups. The interventions occurred daily for two consecutive weeks (Day 1 to Day 9), being of 30 minutes duration each. Outcome measures: postural balance (Berg Functional Balance Scale – BBS), functional mobility (Timed Up and Go – TUG; kinematic variables of 180° turning) and kinematic gait variables were assessed at baseline (Day 0), after four training sessions (Day 4), after nine training sessions (Day 9), and 40 days after completion of training (Follow-up). Cardiovascular parameters (mean arterial pressure and heart rate) were evaluated at four moments within each training session. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare outcomes between EG and CG in the course of the study (Day 0, Day 4, Day 9 and Follow-up). Unpaired t-tests allowed for intergroup comparison at each training session. 5% significance was used for all tests. Results: 1) Cardiovascular parameters (systemic arterial pressure, heart rate and derivated variables) did not change after the interventions and there were no differences between groups within each training session. There was an improvement in gait performance, with increased speed and distance covered, with no statistically significant difference between groups. 2) After the interventions, patients had increased paretic and non-paretic step lengths, in addition to exhibiting greater hip and knee joint excursion on both lower limbs. The gains were observed in the EG and CG, with no statistical difference between the groups and (mostly) maintained at follow-up. 3) After the interventions, patients showed better postural balance (higher scores on BBS) and functional mobility (reduced time spent on the TUG test and better performance on the 180° turning). All gains were observed in the EG and CG, with no statistically significant difference between groups and were maintained at follow-up. Conclusions: The addition of load to the NPLL did not affect cardiovascular parameters in patients with subacute stroke, similar to treadmill training without load, thus seemingly a safe training to be applied to these patients. However, the use of the load did not bring any additional benefits to gait training. The gait training program (nine training sessions on a treadmill + strategies and exercises for paretic limb stimulation) was useful for improving gait performance and kinematics, functional mobility and postural balance, and its use is suggested to promote the optimization of these outcomes in the subacute phase after stroke.

Tradução e adaptação transcultural do domínio função física do Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System – PROMIS® - versão para a língua portuguesa

In 2004, the National Institutes of Health made available the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System – PROMIS®, which is constituted of innovative item banks for health assessment. It is based on classical, reliable Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and includes advanced statistical methods, such as Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Test. One of PROMIS® Domain Frameworks is the Physical Function, whose item bank need to be translated and culturally adapted so it can be used in Portuguese speaking countries. This work aimed to translate and culturally adapt the PROMIS® Physical Function item bank into Portuguese. FACIT (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy) translation methodology, which is constituted of eight stages for translation and cultural adaptation, was used. Fifty subjects above the age of 18 years participated in the pre-test (seventh stage). The questionnaire was answered by the participants (self-reported questionnaires) by using think aloud protocol, and cognitive and retrospective interviews. In FACIT methodology, adaptations can be done since the beginning of the translation and cultural adaption process, ensuring semantic, conceptual, cultural, and operational equivalences of the Physical Function Domain. During the pre-test, 24% of the subjects had difficulties understanding the items, 22% of the subjects suggested changes to improve understanding. The terms and concepts of the items were totally understood (100%) in 87% of the items. Only four items had less than 80% of understanding; for this reason, it was necessary to chance them so they could have correspondence with the original item and be understood by the subjects, after retesting. The process of translation and cultural adaptation of the PROMIS® Physical Function item bank into Portuguese was successful. This version of the assessment tool must have its psychometric properties validated before being made available for clinical use.

Caracterização do parque edificado do centro histórico de Leiria

O tema da dissertação aborda a conservação e reabilitação do parque edificado do centro histórico de Leiria. Um pouco por todas as cidades, tem existido de forma gradual a migração dos centros urbanos históricos para a periferia, ficando em muitas situações praticamente desabitados. Leiria não foi exceção, como se pode verificar estas medidas acabam por trazer consequências irreversíveis, porque ao ficarem desabitados, estes edifícios ficam em muitos casos por sua conta, com o passar do tempo acabam por precisar de pequenas conservações. Caso não sejam realizadas a tempo acabam por danificar progressivamente os edifícios, onde em muitos casos acabam por entrar em ruína ou ficam em tal estado degradação que necessitam de uma reabilitação profunda, acabando por perder características fundamentais que garantem a sua autenticidade e a própria cultura da cidade. Existem vários trabalhos realizados noutros centros históricos, como por exemplo Coimbra e Seixal, que já efetuaram um estudo semelhante. É importante referir o interesse de estudar cada centro histórico, pois a sua identidade depende muito dos materiais provenientes na região, e das técnicas construtivas usadas na altura da construção. Ao longo do trabalho são realizadas algumas comparações entre vários estudos de diferentes centros históricos, justificando desta forma a importante caracterização de cada centro histórico. Pois com materiais e técnicas diferentes, é normal surgirem anomalias “diferentes”, com maior relevância ou não. Nesta dissertação é desenvolvido um estudo em parceria com a Câmara Municipal de Leiria, tendo-se realizado a inspeção de uma amostra significativa de edifícios antigos tradicionais (edifícios que surgiram antes da propagação do betão armado). O ponto fundamental desta dissertação consiste na inspeção de edifícios de forma a conseguir determinar e registar as suas anomalias estruturais e não estruturais, os seus materiais, e as suas técnicas construtivas.O desconhecimento das técnicas das construções tradicionais e os seus materiais acabam por tornar os processos de conservação e reabilitação em muitos casos impróprios, comprometendo assim a fiabilidade do diagnóstico e a eficácia de eventuais ações de reabilitação. Por fim, realizou-se um capítulo de apoio à conservação e reabilitação, apresentando boas práticas de conservação e reabilitação de construções tradicionais, aplicando-se ao centro histórico de Leiria com o objetivo de incentivar potenciais investidores na área da reabilitação (população, empresas e outras entidades, nomeadamente a câmara municipal de Leiria).

Educación física, eugenesia y construcción de la otredad. La Reforma Educativa de la provincia de Buenos Aires (1936-1940)

En las primeras décadas del siglo XX, la preocupación por la degeneración de la especie humana, por la debilidad psíquica y mental de la población, fue muy extendida en países europeos y en Latinoamérica, con lo que la eugenesia, o ciencia del mejoramiento racional de la raza, concitó enorme interés. Para los fines eugenésicos, la cultura física -en cooperación con la medicina, la higiene, la educación sexual y la puericultura- ocupaba un lugar fundamental. En este trabajo nos interesa, en primer lugar, examinar cómo fue posible que en Argentina la eugenesia lograra constituirse en una construcción social hegemónica, a la que adhirieron vertientes ideológicas muy disímiles, incluso opuestas en muchos sentidos. Y, en segundo lugar, centrarnos en el papel atribuido a la educación física para una determinada manera de conceptualizar los fines eugenésicos, con fuerte carga ideológica para construir la otredad, en los discursos educativos hegemónicos de la década de 1930, en particular en la Reforma Educativa para la Provincia de Buenos Aires propuesta a fin de 1936 por el gobernador Manuel Fresco y su ministro de gobierno Roberto J. Noble

De qué tipo de discursos hablamos cuando hablábamos de Educación Física de principios del siglo XX

Se aborda un tema vigente y fundamental, en la historia de principios de siglo XX, tanto de la medicina como de la Educación Física de nuestro país, como es el saber higiénico "en la Revista de la Educación Física del Dr. Enrique Romero Brest. En estos tiempos, el foco de atención de la elite gobernante, fue la problemática de las enfermedades infecto-contagiosas como: la tuberculosis, la lepra y enfermedades varias de origen sexual (como sífilis y gonorrea). La Argentina, que inaugura el siglo XX, con actitudes y discursos exaltando su ?modernidad? no podía mostrar ni tener falencias de salud. Es así, que comienzan prácticas médicas oficiales, positivistas como la fisiología, la psicología experimental, la criminología y la antropología física, al igual que la convivencia con las no oficiales, como terapias magnéticas, hipnosis o simples curanderos. Este elemento nuevo, se suma al surgimiento paulatino de la prensa como actor social, en lo general y de la prensa gráfica en lo particular. La Educación Física, en manos de algunos actores sociales utilizó este elemento, a su favor, haciendo circular algunas ideas y ciertos discursos

Cultura de la enseñanza desde la colaboración. Reflexiones desde mi experiencia en el Bachiller en Educación Física

En la práctica coexisten diferentes formas de ver, actuar y planificar la enseñanza. Hargreaves (1999) manifiesta que existen relaciones muy directas entre la calidad de los aprendizajes y las condiciones de la enseñanza, necesariamente ligadas con las prácticas generadas y compartidas de manera colectiva en una comunidad clasificándolas en: individualismo, colaboración, colegialidad artificial, balcanización y mosaico móvil. Las demandas y expectativas se intensifican en la actualidad, considerándose que las decisiones y la solución de problemas de forma cooperativa es un punto fundamental de las organizaciones que aprenden (Gairín 1996). Trabajar en materias del núcleo específico del Bachiller en Educación Física es un desafío constante tanto desde lo disciplinar como lo metodológico-didáctico y sobre todo, desde las contradicciones que se generan por lo que exige el Diseño Curricular de la Escuela Secundaria, la formación docente y la realidad escolar. Por ello, para un proceso real de mejora y cambio en educación es necesario y urgente considerar al docente como centro y estructurar el trabajo desde la colaboración. Esta se asocia a equipos multidisciplinarios donde rige la interdependencia positiva, las relaciones tienden a ser espontáneas, voluntarias, orientadas al desarrollo, omnipresentes en el tiempo y espacio e imprevisibles: se valora la colaboración para la resolución de problemas y la organización de la enseñanza

El infierno como experiencia física

La idea de infierno como lugar del castigo o expiación, era ya conocida en la Antigüedad Clásica. De las innumerables referencias a la misma seleccioné para esta ponencia el poema de Lucano titulado Farsalia. En el libro VI, versos 413-830, episodio de la maga Ericto, hay claras referencias a los terrores generados en y desde del inframundo: sonidos provenientes del más allá; castigos aplicados a los cuerpos y la visión final de un cadáver resucitado que cuenta lo que experimentó. La ponencia se completa con una lectura del poema 11 del libro Espantapájaros de Oliverio Girondo, escrito dos mil años después del texto latino, donde un suicida vuelca sus sensaciones post-mortem de manera espeluznante y se cierra así un círculo dialógico e intertextual que presenta el concepto de infierno como experiencia física

Educación física, eugenesia y construcción de la otredad. La Reforma Educativa de la provincia de Buenos Aires (1936-1940)

En las primeras décadas del siglo XX, la preocupación por la degeneración de la especie humana, por la debilidad psíquica y mental de la población, fue muy extendida en países europeos y en Latinoamérica, con lo que la eugenesia, o ciencia del mejoramiento racional de la raza, concitó enorme interés. Para los fines eugenésicos, la cultura física -en cooperación con la medicina, la higiene, la educación sexual y la puericultura- ocupaba un lugar fundamental. En este trabajo nos interesa, en primer lugar, examinar cómo fue posible que en Argentina la eugenesia lograra constituirse en una construcción social hegemónica, a la que adhirieron vertientes ideológicas muy disímiles, incluso opuestas en muchos sentidos. Y, en segundo lugar, centrarnos en el papel atribuido a la educación física para una determinada manera de conceptualizar los fines eugenésicos, con fuerte carga ideológica para construir la otredad, en los discursos educativos hegemónicos de la década de 1930, en particular en la Reforma Educativa para la Provincia de Buenos Aires propuesta a fin de 1936 por el gobernador Manuel Fresco y su ministro de gobierno Roberto J. Noble

De qué tipo de discursos hablamos cuando hablábamos de Educación Física de principios del siglo XX

Se aborda un tema vigente y fundamental, en la historia de principios de siglo XX, tanto de la medicina como de la Educación Física de nuestro país, como es el saber higiénico "en la Revista de la Educación Física del Dr. Enrique Romero Brest. En estos tiempos, el foco de atención de la elite gobernante, fue la problemática de las enfermedades infecto-contagiosas como: la tuberculosis, la lepra y enfermedades varias de origen sexual (como sífilis y gonorrea). La Argentina, que inaugura el siglo XX, con actitudes y discursos exaltando su ?modernidad? no podía mostrar ni tener falencias de salud. Es así, que comienzan prácticas médicas oficiales, positivistas como la fisiología, la psicología experimental, la criminología y la antropología física, al igual que la convivencia con las no oficiales, como terapias magnéticas, hipnosis o simples curanderos. Este elemento nuevo, se suma al surgimiento paulatino de la prensa como actor social, en lo general y de la prensa gráfica en lo particular. La Educación Física, en manos de algunos actores sociales utilizó este elemento, a su favor, haciendo circular algunas ideas y ciertos discursos