Abstract
This article analyzes orientations for teaching sports published in journals about the teaching and techniques of physical education from the period 1932-1960, using as sources the Revista de Educação Física [Journal of Physical Education] and Educação Physica [Physical Education]. The theoretical-methodological basis for the article was the analysis of the materiality of printed. The sources indicate a body of knowledge needed to teach physical education, related to a project of professional education. The conditions for crowning physical education in schools include the need to study, corporally appropriate the exercises, mediate interpersonal relations, and know the rules and history of sporting practices, to maintain the depth and complexity required for the organization of their educational programs.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION; SPORTS; PERIODICALS; TEACHING METHODS
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Source: REPHy (1932).
Source: Bastos Junior (1938a).
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Source: Torney Junior (1939).
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Caption: “The thrower drops down over the left leg, with his nose above his knees and arms around the left thigh, with the hands nearly touching the ground”.Source: 
Caption: “Extended as seen above, the athlete is found in the position of this figure”.Source: 
Caption: “We see that the athlete rotated his trunk, to be in the proper situation, ready to drop down over the right leg”.Source: 
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