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Consolidating ‘channels’ and deepening the circulation of knowledge and experts: The case of the XVII Pan American Congress of Physical Education, Panama 1999
Authors: Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky
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The following work analyzes, from a socio-historical perspective with emphasis on the social history of knowledge and experts, the XIII Pan American Congress of Physical Education held in Panamá in 1999. It focuses the investigation on the knowledge transmitted, the function of the experts and the role of institutions in the congress. To carry out the hermeneutical analysis, within the framework of a qualitative methodology, interpretive attention has been focused on various documentary sources, such as memoirs and reports of the congress, the central exhibitions, the general lectures, the written press and the memories related to other Pan American congresses. Likewise, a set of semi-structured interviews have been carried out. Among the conclusions, three major theoretical perspectives are identified that conceptualized physical education, the sports universe and health differently: biomedical, pedagogical with an imprint linked to constructivist psychological and socio-critical. In the circulation of these discourses, experts and international institutions played a fundamental role.