From the beliefs of the school community about physical activity to the institutional policies of the educational center

Abstract

The originality of this article is based on the contribution to understand the educative community beliefs concerning physical activity, sustained in academic and positivist curriculum approaches, which guides the school policies about physical activity and define the daily actions in this school area. This ethnographic qualitative research (case of study) was performed in an urban public school in Costa Rica. The results show the interpretation of the beliefs related to physical activity in school and in physical education class, and how these beliefs affect the children´s active styles of life.