Views of the relationship between culture and quality in Venezuelan Education/ Physical Education: theoretical incursions and contributions from university researchers

Abstract

This text presents dimensions of culture and quality in Venezuelan Education / Physical Education through theoretical incursions and contribution of researchers from Higher Education Institutions. The analysis is complemented with education policy documents, recourse to the literature and information through the form of completed online questionnaires. Based on the data, it was verified that: a) the theme of culture in the production of knowledge in physical education in Venezuela is still incipient; b) the culture is present in the school, although it is little evidenced in the physical education, being generally associated with traditions and customs; c) it is not common the thematization of physical education along terms as physical culture, body culture and movement culture; d) the theoretical framework have the sporty content with influences of psychomotricity and sociomotricity; e) the quality of physical education is compromised, among other aspects, by the fact that the State sees this subject as complementary to the lack of institutional sports.