Body and movement in the childhood education

Abstract

This paper is about an ethnographical research in an early childhood education locate at Campinas city. We observed what is the meaning of body and movement of the children during the early childhood education routine. The observation was dialog through Foucault’s studies about the disciplining of bodies inside modern institutions and constitution of people subjectivities. During four weeks we observed one class with children between 3 year and 6 months and 6 years old and informal conversation classroom´s teacher and scholar coordinator. In according with the observed and read of the theoretical referentially we detach some points: how the children body was seen in the different spaces of CEMEI and how it was organized; what bodily attitudes the teachers demanded from the children and what the context of the tricks made by the teachers. In according with Foucault and the field inquiry we can realize that what people are and do is not defined previously. Then, it is possible to question the constitution of ourselves. If we assume that scholar practices are sociality building, we can realize that it can be rethought and restructured, experimenting another form to act and teach in the early childhood education.