Body Practices and Brazilian Culture: Pedagogical Contributions to Physical Education Professionals

This work aims to analyze: 1) body practices, in particular the sport, and their relationships with Brazilian culture, 2) generate theoretical elements for physical education professionals to have an effective pedagogical action. The methodological procedure consisted of a qualitative bibliography research. As a result, we identified that it is fundamental for Physical Education professionals, working in schools and leisure places, to perform pedagogical actions that make possible for the subjects to gain access to systematized knowledge, so that they can understand the meanings attributed to body practices that circulate in Brazil.