THE IMPACT OF THE RENEWAL MOVEMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION ON TEACHERS' IDENTITY: A VIEW BASED ON AXEL HONNETH'S "THEORY OF RECOGNITION"

This article looks into the impact of the Renewal Movement of Physical Education on the identities of PE teachers who completed their initial training before the 1990s. It examines the hypothesis that "PE denaturalization" caused by such production would have had a great impact on teachers' identity. It conducts empirical research based on semi-structured interviews with 13 PE teachers from different Brazilian states and regions. It chooses Honneth's (2009) theory on social recognition as its perspective of analysis, underscoring affective-moral issues. It stresses the aforementioned movement as causing dissonance, destabilization, and rupture in the field, but it also underscores also its power by emphasizing the need to think PE in connection with a broader schooling process.