POSSIBILITIES FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Professional and technological education is expanding in Brazil in order to contribute to the nation's material development. However, Federal Education Institutes (vocational schools known as IFes) have the task of advancing beyond material development and providing education for thinking, which is not restricted to specialized technical training. Such assumptions lead to reflection about the possibilities and challenges of Physical Education (PE) at IFes guided by the following question: does the fact that IFes students look for certification and professional qualification in Technical Courses Integrated to Secondary Education exempt them from accessing the body culture of movement? From the methodological point of view, this is a reflective essay that does not consider empirical data. Finally, it highlights the relationship between the possibilities for PE at IFes and the political and epistemological debate - at macro and micro levels - within the context of the IFes creation.