A infância nas tramas do poder: um estudo das relações entre as crianças na escola

Abstract

Considering the advancement related to childhood studies in contemporaneity, as well as the appearance of new theoretical fields for its study, I have looked forward to investigate in this work the different manners to be a child since the relationships for them established in the school. The research has been done in a public school in Juiz de For a, MG, in a class of the first year of Child Education, with four and five year-old children that were in the beginning of the school process the main objective has been to comprehend what the relations of power among children could reveal in relation to the configurations that the childhood can assume since the discursive and non discursive pradices produced in school context. In this study, I propose to analyze discourse in the Foulcaultian fashion, from the reading of masterpieces by Michel Foucault and by other authors like Maria Isabel Bujes and Alfredo Veiga-Neto, who have adopted this perspective. Understanding that the school was constructed for children and that it constitutes it self as one of the most important spaces for children production, this work has looked forward to comprehend which would be the possible childhood for this disciplinary school pattern that still exists nowadays. Thus, I propose the following questions: which childhood has been produced nowadays in this space destinated to children? Which knowledge ha been constructed about them and which relationships of power have been constructing them? When and from which mechanisms these subjectivities have been established? Questions like these ones have conducted myself through out this study and have allowed myself to notice childhood has been produced historically in the relations established among the subjects.