Compared the historical weakness of the physical education school to the framework for growth of public policy of sports and leisure, and the social projects of sports in Brazil. Considering that the target audience is the same, children and youth of school age, while recognizing the differing goals, we confront these frames, seeking to question them and explain the functionality attributed to sport and leisure. To this end, we carried out a literature review which allowed us to observe the path that led to those frames. The results showed that in the current socio-political order and economic, the use of sport and leisure occurs sometimes as a commodity, sometimes as pseudo social right, considering its use as an ideological State apparatus (in and out of school).
Public policy; sports; leisure; physical education