Physical education and biopolitics in post-dictatorship Uruguay (1985-1990)

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https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4177

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Body, Education, Biopolitics, Recreation, Play

Abstract

This paper provides a discursive analysis of the four curricular programs of the Comisión Nacional de Educación Física (CNEF-Uruguay) of 1988, which are some of the fundamental documents of the policies in Physical Education in the first post-dictatorial quinquennium in Uruguay (1985-1990). We describe the conditions for the potential development of a physical education characterized by its ludic quality, exploring   the frequent references to recreation in the policies in Physical Education as a government strategy aimed at the regulation of the population. Then, we analyze the relationship between politics and the education of the body,  in light of the post-dictatorship policies and the policymakers attempt to distance themselves from the proposals developed in the dictatorial period. During the military-civic dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985); gymnastic displays and sporting events were exalted. In the return to democracy, physical  education policies took a more recreational form, although maintained the same spirit: the government of the population and the productive body.

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Rodrigo Piriz, Universidad de la República

Posee Licenciatura en Educación Física por el Instituto Superior de Educación Física de la Universidad de la República (2015) y Maestría en Educación por el Programa de Posgrado en Educación de la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (2018) en donde actualmente cursa sus estudios doctorales. Es profesor asistente, del Departamento de Educación Física, Tiempo Libre y Ocio del Instituto Superior de Educación Física de la Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Alexandre Vaz, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina

Doctor por la Leibniz Universität Hannover, profesor de los Programas de Posgrado en Educación e Interdisciplinar en Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Investigador 1C CNPq. Coordinador del Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas Educação e Sociedade Contemporânea (UFSC/CNPq).

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2019-12-09

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Piriz, R., & Vaz, A. (2019). Physical education and biopolitics in post-dictatorship Uruguay (1985-1990). Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27, 156. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4177

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