ABSTRACT
This chapter describes Brazilian physical education and explores the alchemic practice to think more broadly about how to study the curriculum. It makes a contribution to think about how the process of transformations of school knowledge of Physical Education in sports embodies practices concerned with the making of people. Since the introduction of physical education as a subject and discipline in Brazilian schools in 1922, its goals and the ways in which it is taught have changed many times in curricula and the methods of instruction. Physical education is one of the educational sites to consider the technologies of discipline and control of conduct through the discipline of the body. The emergence of sports in the Brazilian physical education curriculum is clearly not merely about sports, but embodies cultural rules about what kind of person will contribute to the making of a healthy, productive, and disciplined nation. Sports have become an organizational strategy, or device, for regulating the curriculum.
