Cabeça, ombro, joelho e pé: (re) significando a corporeidade na educação infantil

Abstract

Corporeality in early childhood education is the central theme of this work. A work that aims to understand how children's bodies can enhance their development and promote their lives. Establishing a dialogue with the Foucautian perspective and going through other theoretical references, we reflect on how pedagogical practices are involved with children's relationship with their own bodies. Often, the school becomes a disciplinary institution controlling and docilizing small bodies. In this way, we seek to understand whether early childhood education embraces and integrates children's bodily freedom or whether it merely reinforces disciplinary control devices. The text establishes a conversation with the Method developed by Maria Montessori, which supports the exploration of space, active interaction with materials and children's participation in the construction of knowledge. We dialogue with the conceptions that learning permeates the entire body, promoting a more integral and respectful education for children's needs. We end with an experience with a kindergarten teacher.