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Many studies in the area of physical education and sports psychology marginalize the production of subjectivities as intrinsic to the sport practice. The effort to challenge this omission is the primary motivation for this chapter. The studies on which the chapter was written were conducted and were addressed to the use of the sport and physical education as a device of inclusion in two different contexts and countries: the institutional context of mental health in Brazil and with Paralympic athletes in Cuba. The researches allow to conclude the importance of considering the physical education and the sport not only as complement activities in the mental health’s attention, but as one important activity for the education and subjective development of both, users of the mental health services and the professors, who frequently feel themselves as a secondary professional in the mental health services. At the same the study hold in Cuba with Paralympic athletes showed that the training cannot be center only on high performance; it should attend before all the subjective development of the athletes.
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These categories are developed in Chapter 1 of this book, Subjectivity as a new theoretical, epistemological, and methodological pathway within cultural historical psychology.
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The category of subject allows the individual in his/her capacity to open new singular paths of subjectivation that translate into new spaces as an alternative to the pre-established or standardized spaces. Chapter 2, The Theory of Subjectivity in the Current Moment: implications for research and the psychological practice, in the book Subjectivity: Theory, epistemology and method, by González Rey & Martínez (2017b) theoretically advances the concepts of agent and subject.
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In the three cases, italics and parentheses mark some explanations, descriptions of physical expressions, and other details that are relevant for the construction under development.
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R’s disability consists of decreased mobility in his right arm that resulted from an atrophy caused by improper handling during birth.
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In R.’s statements, the symbol (…) indicates pauses in his expressions.
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Culturally, the concept of manhood in Cuba has a determining influence on the socially shared “environment.” González Rey & Martínez (2017a) define it as “a system of values and norms organized around man as value within an imaginary crossed by the strong presence of the sect of African origin named ‘abakua’ in the Cuban popular culture, as well as well as by the many epics starring heroic Cuban warriors throughout the history of Cuba, and more recently with the Cuban Revolution (…) (p. 15).”
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Vidaurreta, L.R., da Costa, J.M. (2019). Health and Performance: The Omission of Subjectivity and Education in Sport Practice. In: González Rey, F., Mitjáns Martínez, A., Magalhães Goulart, D. (eds) Subjectivity within Cultural-Historical Approach. Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3155-8_15
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