SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION: ABOUT A SPECIFICITY THAT NO EPISTEMOLOGY ANSWERS

Abstract

This article addresses the “nature” and specificity of school physical education. For that, it tries to answer three questions: 1) in the context of the formation of scientific fields, what is the outline of a possible scientific statute for Physical Education?; 2) in the context of pedagogical theories and / or professional fields, what is the nature of Physical Education? and; 3) how is it given the specificity of Physical Education in the field of school?. In the face of these challenges, it conducts a critical analysis of the attempt of solving limited to epistemology, maintaining that the raised questions need an ethical-political solution. As final considerations, the article points out some benchmarks considered important to face the set of issues that challenge us in the educational field in line with the ethical-political field, which characterizes the form of republican and democratic sociability.