Dance and schooling: propositions in the brazilian Physical Education periodical press in the 1930s and 1940s

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This study examines how the theme of dance circulated in the Physical Education periodical press of Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s. It is grounded in cultural history theory, emphasizing the concepts of tactics, strategy, and school culture. Methodologically, it uses documentary criticism and the evidentiary paradigm. Four Physical Education journals published during this period serve as primary sources, complemented by early 20th-century U.S. educational folk dance materials, to illustrate that the Brazilian periodical press disseminated early ideas about dance education in Brazil that were primarily based upon an already-established U.S. educational folk dance model. Altogether, this study reveals a widespread Brazilian effort to legitimize dance as school knowledge, situated within a wider cultural project of educational modernization and national identity building.

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Bruna Teixeira Carneiro, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Doutoranda e mestra (2022) em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES) na linha de pesquisa "Estudos Históricos e Socioculturais da Educação Física, Esporte, Lazer e Saúde". Graduanda em História pela UFES, especialista em Docência para a Educação Profissional e Tecnológica (2022) pelo Instituto Federal da Paraíba (IFPB) e especialista em Docência do Ensino Básico e Superior (2022) pela Faculdade Estratego (GRUPO ESTRATEGO). 

Erica Okamura, Queensland University of Technology

Mestre em Belas Artes em Dança pela Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) e bacharel em Estudos Internacionais com Antropologia Cultural pelo Macalester College (St. Paul, Minnesota). Atualmente, está cursando um doutorado na área de Indústrias Criativas na Queensland University of Technology, em Brisbane. É diretora do projeto Grace McMillan Project, autora australiana do livro "Swedish Recreative Exercises for School & Playground" (1905), um dos primeiros manuais relacionados à dança utilizados na educação física em escolas de língua inglesa. 

Omar Schneider, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Possui Licenciatura Plena em Educação Física (2000) pela Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, realizou o Mestrado (2003) e o Doutorado (2007) na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, no Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: História, Política e Sociedade.  É professor do Centro de Educação Física e Desportos, da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). É coordenador do Centro de Memória da Educação Física e do Esporte Capixaba (Cemefec), sediado no Centro de Educação Física e Desportos da Ufes.

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2026-06-19

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Teixeira Carneiro, B., Okamura, E., & Schneider, O. (2026). Dance and schooling: propositions in the brazilian Physical Education periodical press in the 1930s and 1940s. Revista História Da Educação, 30. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/asphe/article/view/148467

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Vol. 30 (2026): V.30 - 2026

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