The final stage of Basic Education, High School, is considered the moment in which the student
can reflect about his/her identity, the relevance of the school, all his/her experiences in this
educational environment, especially those related to his/her formation as a human being,
beyond the contents of Physical Education. In addition, it must promote the development of a
critical and autonomous attitude to their students when facing life challenges, fostering an
emancipatory conduct to the exercise of citizenship. One of the important issues in this
formative scenario is to motivate reflections about the body since basic education. For this
reason, this research aimed to understand the conception of body of high school students from
the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará - Campus Santarém, and its
relation to the approach of corporeity in Physical Education classes in the Amazon educational
context. Therefore, the writing was based on a qualitative approach, based on the corporeity
phenomenon, mediated by authors who evoke the theme. About the data production, a
sociodemographic questionnaire with twenty-four closed questions and an interview with three
questions answered by the students was used. To analyze the data obtained, the Technique of
Elaboration and Analysis of Meaning Units was used. Thus, fourteen students answered the
sociodemographic questionnaire and eleven of these participated in the interview, all in the age
bracket between 15 and 18 years. Indeed, it was found that the understanding of body of the
students surveyed vary between the conception of body based on an active being, which relates
to itself, with others and its environment producing culture, and the understanding focused on
the Cartesian model in which the body-object emerged in the discourse of adolescents,
characterized as an aesthetic and machinic spectacle in which perfection and beauty imposed
by appearance is admired. As for the conceptions attributed to the body in Physical Education
classes, they headed towards an idea of a tired body that degenerates through inactivity, with
little reflection of intentional movement, subservient to repetitive motor patterns that aim only
at performance and physical conditioning. About the conceptions of body and adolescence, it
was identified that the students see themselves in transformations, and for them this is good,
glimpsing a sensitive corporeity amidst the changes in their life-world. In summary, it is
considered that by unveiling the understanding of body/corporeity, coming from teenagers in
high school, it is possible to contribute to the recognition of a human being in its entirety.
Consequently, evoking the theme has been relevant so far, due to the scarcity of studies about
the body and the corporeity phenomenon in education, school Physical Education and in spaces
of human and academic formation in the Amazon region.
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