BODY AND MOVEMENT IN CHILD EDUCATION: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS FOR THE FREE EXPRESSION OF THE BODY
Body. Movement. Child. Childhood. Child education.
This study proposes to investigate the body and the movement looking for understandings about the possibilities and limits dedicated to the free expression of the body in Early Childhood Education. We seek to understand how children react in interactions with their peers in face of the routines and pedagogical practices of daycare and CEMEI, with regard to the limits and possibilities given to the body and movement. The discussions start from the new social studies of childhood, dialoguing with the different areas and proposing an interdisciplinary reflection articulated to the theoretical contributions of Foucault, Gaya, Sayão and Buss-Simão, seeking to reflect on the educational process of the body that has been configured in Institutions of Childish Education . We will expand this approach by establishing a dialogue with the concepts of experience in Benjamin and Larrosa and of development in a sociocultural perspective. The data were constructed from online interviews with the teachers and videographic records that portray pedagogical activities in the daily life of the day care center and CEMEI, the locus of the research is the Network Municipal of Recife. The study discusses perceptions that can contribute to the understanding of the body's role and favor new experiences and practices in Early Childhood Education.