Street Games: a transforming attempt in the school-city environment

Abstract

It has been said that the school is a privileged space for the transformation of the city. This text associated with the investigation "Documentation, systematization and interpretation of good pedagogical practices of education of the body in the school" demonstrates the forming pedagogical potential which generates an educational social practice which being born on the street, goes to the school and afterward returns to the street, park encouraging a changing formation. This comprehensive-descriptive ethnography is guided by the question What is the cur-ricular power of the corporal practice Street Games in the Social Change? This cultural study takes place in a city of 180,000 inhabitants that because of being connected to Medellin changes from semi-urban condition to a dependent urban-industrial.