Physical education and critical theory: approaches from the approach critical-emancipatory and teaching comunicativa

This article is in an effort to summarize the main features of social theory, referred to as Critical Theory, theoretical approach known by the Traditional Theory critical, especially as it is situated as a critical stance against capitalist society in the rescue of the ideal of human emancipation . Taking as a starting point supports the theoretical underpinning and as a point of arrival, the relationships between its theoretical and epistemological assumptions, our purpose focuses on the possibility of contributing to the understanding of the need for a link between theory and practice in teaching practices teachers of Physical Education, from its foundation in Critical Theory and Emancipatory Teaching Communicative (Kunz, 1994), which presents as foundational theoretical element Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School.