Teacher training in physical education. Between prescription and reality

This paper analyzes and understands the meanings about training in curricular perspectives of the current study plan (2000) and in programs of the theoretical-practical training path in PE. With a qualitative and interpretive methodological design, a content analysis of the study plan and programs included within the theoretical-practical training path in Physical Education, structuring the disciplinary specificity, was carried out. We observe lines of continuity and discontinuity between the directions of training presented by the different curricula. Among the first, the location of the career in the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences stands out, as a feature of the humanist profile and the theoretical-methodological training that characterizes the careers since their foundation, in contrast to the technical and technical profile that this career had in other institutions in our country. The discontinuities are given by the criticism of the evolutionary criterion as an organizer of the contents and the change in the denomination of the educational levels, in line with the transformations introduced by the national regulations. Questions are opened to think about training in the future, assuming that its definition supposes a political and cultural project.