Textbooks are involved in the process of reproduction and direct or indirect transmission of social behavior patterns, norms and values. The aim of this study is to compare the way the relationship between body and movement are represented in the images of a textbook published in 1996 and another published in 2012 belonging to the same publishing group and addressed to the children’s educational system (Pre-K). For the study of the images, the content analysis technique was used based on a system of categories previously established. Despite being published with a gap of sixteen years both textbooks have the following common elements: Equal presence of male and female bodies; they show mainly Caucasian children’s bodies; and finally, none of the textbooks shows a body with any type of disability. In turn, the textbooks are different in terms of the location of the body in space and motor activity levels implied by the images. Although none of categories used for body analysis is related to social class, it is possible to infer that the hegemonic relations that occur in everyday representations of bodies have been developed in the country with a view to a distinct recognition of the differences of gender, race and disability on a scale from greater recognition of gender to a minor recognition in terms of disability. The way the Body and Movement dimensions studied, with their respective categories were addressed allows us to notice different social imaginary settings, contributing to the exercise of criticism that corresponds to teachers and other professionals involved in teaching.
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