Despite the consolidation of stricto sensu postgraduate programs in Physical Education (PP-PE), critics have been noted. Among the principal, it is pointed out the technical formation and specialization on the initial periods of scientific formation, the distance between knowledge and society, the emphasis on the quantitative bibliographic production, guiding the aim of research for publication. This form of scientific production is entitled as academic fordism. Thus, the aim of this essay is discuss the orientation politic of the PP-PE and your implication to knowledge production and academic formation. The emphasis on bibliographic production and the devaluation of the PE likes area of intervention may implicate on the critical formation and result in mischaracterization of area.
Postgraduate studies; scientific policy; production of knowledge