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Despite neoliberal educational reforms that modulate teaching through standardized metrics, practices grounded in the cultural curriculum of Physical Education enable teachers to create transgressive counter-conducts that affirm the school as a site of cultural contestation. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Examine how physical education practices grounded in a cultural curriculum challenge regulatory mechanisms imposed by secondary education reform.

September 2, 2026Sport Education and Society

The cultural curriculum of physical education in Brazil’s New Secondary Education reform: a South American perspective on transgressive education

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MNMarcos García NeiraUniversidade de São Paulo MNMário Luiz Ferrari NunesUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

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Qualitative interventionist study reveals transgressive physical education practices resist standardized secondary reforms, indicating schools remain contested cultural spaces.

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Examine how physical education practices grounded in a cultural curriculum challenge regulatory mechanisms imposed by secondary education reform.
Conducted a qualitative, collaborative, and interventionist study across three state schools in São Paulo between 2023 and 2025.
Gathered observational records, pedagogical experience narratives, and audiovisual materials, analyzing them via exploratory thematic analysis and a Foucauldian analytics of governmentality.
Standardized assessments, prescribed digital platforms, and administrative metrics systematically constrain educator autonomy and student engagement.
Teachers enact counter-conducts by reframing evaluation into dialogue and listening, questioning rigid representations, and validating students' cultural lived experiences.

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Neira et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e305c562ede874ec787e https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2026.2724337

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Qualitative interventionist study reveals transgressive physical education practices resist standardized secondary reforms, indicating schools remain contested cultural spaces.

The cultural curriculum of physical education in Brazil’s New Secondary Education reform: a South American perspective on transgressive education

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The cultural curriculum of physical education in Brazil’s New Secondary Education reform: a South American perspective on transgressive education

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