THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND THE FIELD OF TEACHER TARINING IN THE STATE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL: THE ORIGINS OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING (1869- 1929)

Abstract

ESEF's foundation is inset in a social
process, in which Rio Grande do Sul's society was
mobilized to reach the purposes that, even before
correspond to its social particularities, remitted to the
consolidation of a new Brazil, country that was
emerging as a republican political organization. Thus,
in our thinking, any attempt to distinguish ESEF as the
first teaching institution to graduate teachers in higher
education in the state, passes through, necessarily,
by the knowledge of the efforts for the systematization
of this formative practice, which anteceded its arrival
to the field. Therefore, the central aim of the study
was to comprehend how occurred Physical Education
teachers' formation in the previous period of ESEF
institutionalization. Intending to do so, the recognition
and the validity of new versions about our study
object, and also the utilization of sources that
announce provenances and diverse natures are
elements that compose a particular form of history
appropriation, of which we search to approximate
here: Cultural History. In this spectrum, our
investigations about this theme leaded us to punctuate
two significative moments which have crossed the
field in these initial moments: the absence of specialty
formation and, from the year of 1929, the organization
of the so-called "Physical Education Intensive
Courses".