School and Education for Citizenship: what is the role of physical education?

This article discusses the relation between citizenship, which has been very present on the agenda in recent years, with school education. It presents a critique both of the understanding of citizenship concept and of its relationship with education, since the existing literature has sometimes been unadvised in doing so. Based on this discussion, this paper builds initial reflections on the possibility of physical education to contribute to the much-vaunted and sought formation of the citizen.18413515