Equity: jottings for the education of the body

Abstract

Abstract: The intention of the paper is to analyze the historic development of the idea of equality and its unfolding in policies of equity. During the analysis we tried to apprehend in which measure the science is constituted in contributes to justify an universal meaning of equality, and in contexts of inequalities, changing social inequalities for physical differences among individuals, taking bodily particularities as a reference.

Keywords: equity; equality; difference; body.