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The purpose of this article is to present the way in which knowledge is treated on Physical Education classes at public schools. Through ethnographic research, aspects inherent to the concrete context of school practice that enhance the knowledge-producing cultural dynamics are put in the spotlight. The tradition, the symbolic efficacy and the common sense are some of those factors. It is possible to affirm that the knowledge(s) of the Physical Education classes are molded by aspects related to the cultural tradition presented by the subject, as well as factors going beyond what a rationalist view of knowledge might admit. Based on such questions it is possible to think how the ethnography of knowledge might inspire the didactical/pedagogical discussion for Physical Education at school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...

This paper discusses the educational experience as a privileged social practice for the comprehension of the meaning of sport in television. We base our socio-cultural approach on a pedagogical action carried out with future Physical Education teachers from Brazil. They identified, through the reading of the television broadcast of a women's basketball championship, the play on meanings spread by the Brazilian television, thus influencing the construction of certain ethics and aesthetics of the present-day sports phenomenon. In such a process, the students were able to identify the transformation of sport into a «TV-show» and to comprehend the process of signification of cultural elements by the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...