Body knowledge specialists and experts: the First Conference of Physical Education Teachers, Buenos Aires, 1942

Abstract

The following work analyzes the First Conference of Physical Education Teachers held in the city of Buenos Aires in 1942. From the perspective of the social and cultural history, we think of the event - the first of its kind in Argentina - as a place that allows to identify common narratives, dominant sense logics, thematic discontinuities and points of discord about the education of the movement. Likewise, we explore the event as a sounding board that makes tensions, agreements and conflicts visible between people, organizations and groups of specialists or experts. Our hypothesis suggests that the event (with continuities and ruptures of meanings in the discourses, knowledge and practices of the physical education) legitimized certain actors, occupational groups, proposals and institutions above others.