El juego del marro : un dispositivo de la pedagogía disciplinar en la tradición inventada de la educación física contemporánea del siglo XIX y principios del XX

For constructing disciplinary codes to support the pedagogical bases of physical education some devices were activated to manifest the power of socialization of the educational institution. In the "pedagogical theatre" of physical education, games like el marro or rescate (Prisoner's Bar) were used in Spain, other European countries and America as an excellent means of introducing techniques of control and social reproduction which, through the appearance of self-government, aimed at transferring behavior to other rule-based and hierarchized orders of society. Through genealogical analysis of the pedagogy of el juego de marro and with the documentary support of the latest studies, we attempt to demonstrate how, beyond the internal and external logic of the game, there lay a silenced ethos: educational domination by adults