Abstract

CAMPOS, Rafaely Karolynne do Nascimento  and  RAMOS, Tacyana Karla Gomes. For a full-body participation: reflecting on the body dimension and participation of children in the pedagogical practices of early childhood education. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.76, pp.230-251.  Epub Apr 05, 2023. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.23.076.ds09.

This study brings contributions from a doctoral research that took in as an investigative problem to understand the forms of participation of children in Early Childhood Education and its influences on pedagogical practice, using methodological procedures inspired by Ethnography. The study participants are seventeen children, of both sexes, aged three and four years and a teacher, members of a public institution of Early Childhood Education. Thereby, the research that gave rise to this text highlighted the body as part of the forms of participation of children in Early Childhood Education and, by bringing it, questions the ways of this participation in face of the forms of regulatory control instituted in the context of the educational institution. In this discussion, we intend to highlight the right to participation of children in the educational context and its relationships with the body dimension, seeking to problematize the practices of discipline and control of children's social actions through the silencing of the experiences of their bodies instituted by the teacher. We made use of studies of the Sociology of Childhood to constitute the analysis, which shows that the different forms of participation of children indicate the need that they have to express themselves, mainly with their bodies. The raised data considered a mismatch between the right of children to participate, especially in the practices proposed by the teacher, so, it’s necessary to reflect on the controlling and limiting ways that are imposed in educational contexts on the body dimension of children.

Keywords : Early education; Participation of children; Body dimension; Rights; Pedagogical practice.

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