The concept of physical education emerged in the XIX century through the European gymnastic methods, initially for the purpose of asserting the sovereignty of the nationality of countries, by means of exaltation of patriotism ...

Gymnastics is a manifestation of body culture, which has a number of fields (SOUZA, 1997): competition, demonstration, physical conditioning, body awareness and rehabilitation, providing a wide range of knowledge to be ...

Throughout our whole life we go through disciplinary processes and surveillance that could come to model the way we should behave and express ourselves socially. On the plots of this power over the body we don't recognize ...