Cem anos de história: a educação física no Colégio Marista Santa Maria

Abstract

This research has as its objective a better comprehension about the History of Physical Education in the city of Santa Maria in Rio Grande do Sul. The theme History of Physical Education was chosen because the studies in this area are recent in the city, therefore there are not so many information on the subject. To accomplish the objective, it is necessary to know how was the History of Physical Education classes at Santa Maria Marista School, chosen because it is the oldest private school in town yet in operation, cointaining a great historical archive to be researched from. The researches were realized at the Historical Archive of the instituiton and also through informal conversation with a few of the teachers that have taught Physical Education calsses at the school. The objective of this work is to verify some of the facts about Physical Education at the institution between the years 1905 to 2005, such as: course of study, teachers, space, evaluation, planning and homogeneity of classes. The instruments of analysis were the “ECHOS”, which are register books of the school year, Project of Physical Education Restructuring, Course of Study, Course of Class, the political pedagogical Project and a quis with questions open for ex-teachers of the Santa Maria Marista School. All of that has contributed to know the History of Physical Education as well as the one from Santa Maria Marista School. It is emphasised that this work is available to students, teachers, historians from Santa Maria and the country, so that future works may propose the discovery of the past as today we contribute.