It is Forbidden to Sleep: the meanings of the corporal practices of the ‘forró universitário’ as contribution to the cultural curriculum.

Abstract

This research intended to collaborate with the democratization of knowledge proposed by the cultural
curriculum of Physical Education. It brings the meanings of the ‘forró universitário’, for teachers in
action in the school has elements that help him in the elaboration of a curriculum that attends the
diverse cultural practices, collaborating with the curricular justice. It uses participant ethnography
from the perspective of a postmodern ethnographer, adopting the position of a flaneur. The
observations were made at four different times in a nightclub ‘forró universitário’, with the purpose of
observing the forms of regulation of the culture of the forrozeiros. It promotes the production of
ethnographic studies as a basis for the interpretation of cultural codes of corporal practices and their
thematization in the curriculum.