The physical education in the Imperial Collegio de Pedro Segundo (1841 - 1870)

Abstract

The present article analyzes the process of insertion of the physical education in the Imperial Collegio de Pedro Segundo (CPII), high school established in Rio de Janeiro in 1837. We discuss the daily routine of the physical education class of the CPII between 1841 and 1870, analyzing the reasons and the actions that had taken the institution to adopt the practice of these activities, analyzing the profile of the scholar agents that was responsible for these practice, the subjets teached in its classes, and the spaces where these classes happened. In conclusion, we detach the wealth of the information that can be gotten with the study of the daily routine of physical education in the Brazilian schools of the 19th century.