THE SPORT IN PROTESTING SCHOOLS: THE PRESBITERIAN AND METHODIST EXPERIENCE IN GOIÁS (1942-1963)

Abstract

This article is a reflection on the presence of sport in Protestant schools through the experience of two schools institutions that settled in the state of Goiás in the early 1940s, one Presbyterian, the Samuel Graham Institute and another Methodist, the Granbery Institute. In this sense, we first discussed de relationship between Protestantism, education and sport in Brazil. Then, we mapped the Protestant insertion in Goiás and its relationship with educational part. In the second part, we analyze the sports experience of the Samuel Graham and Granbery institutes yhe material apparatus, the modalities practiced, the organization and the purposes in each institution. Associate with the idea of a comprehensive education, sport was highly valued in each institution, it was part of the curriculum school, it welcomed boys and girls without distinction of sex and disseminated little practiced modalites such as volleyball, basketball and athletics.combining religious elements and North American pragmatismo, sport was also na elemento of institutional promotion, being appropriate and represented as a symbol of modernization and educational excellence propagated by these institutions.