This study aims to discover contributions made by physical education in schools towards the construction of children's corporeity in the contemporary European context. Constructivist methodologies (Guba, Lincoln, 1994) and ethnographic studies (Denzin, 1997) were used in order to narrate stories showing the main modes of corporeity production in a particular educational center where our research was conducted. Our results suggest that physical education in school excludes corporeities that use their capacity for action to adopt models and positions that are often different from those advocated by education theory. The study argues that current pedagogical corporal practices fail to acknowledge alternative projects that subjects manage to build in the margins of mainstream school discourses and customs.
School; physical education; corporeity; agency processes