The problems of Gymnastics

Abstract

This article aims to synthesize the main ideas of the papers presented at the Workshop "The problems of Gymnastics", which was developed in the framework of 9th Argentine and 4th Latin American Congress of Physical Education and Sciences held in the National University of La Plata in June 2011. All of them agree in thinking of Gymnastics as a fundamental part of a Body Education that aims at transmitting culturally significant knowledge of the body which help as tool for knowledge, care and self-management of the body. From these points of agreement, each author develops its specific gymnastics topic: either from research and analysis of public outreach and academic texts, the discourse of teachers, students and trainees, or the critical analysis of current gymnastics field; also from concrete proposals of work in gymnastics, in this case, aerobics, functional gymnastics, Pilates Method or gymnastics in a Physical Education career projected towards school gymnastics