Book review – Brazilian Physical Education: The corporeality in question

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the book Brazilian Physical Education: The corporeality in question, by Manuel Pacheco Neto, published in 2022, by the publisher of the Federal University of Grande Dourados. The analysis considered the 169 pages of the book, in addition to its paratextual elements. Main results: (a) the book was structured in five parts, being an initial part, three chapters and a final part, all substantiated by 89 references; (b) it is the first work to carry out, in Brazil, a historical and critical survey of the production on corporeality and Physical Education and its repercussion in the school context; (c) Pacheco Neto's analysis considered a time frame of 36 years (1980 – 2016); (d) the work alerts to the biologicism, sportivism and competitive that still anchor pedagogical practices propagated in many Brazilian schools; and (e) the manuscript is aimed at Physical Education and Sports professionals who are dedicated to humanizing, embodied in the corporeality framework, body movement practices in all stages of Education, and also outside the formal teaching environment . In summary, the book makes an undeniable contribution to the understanding of corporeality in the field of Physical Education.