Disciplinando o corpo de Alice: maravilha e controle na escola contemporânea

Abstract

The school, as an institution, exerts on the children an institutionalized, naturalized, legitimated control in form of discipline codes, statutes, internal norms, regiments and other devices. Each step toward learning is minutely planned, previewed and controlled. Infantile bodies, plants of movement and expression, are, little by little, subjected. For the different ones, the punishments. For those who don't allow themselves to be squared, labels: inadequate, incapables, incompetents - repeaters. This work, based in field research in a public school in Juiz de Fora - MG, dialogs with my experience as Physical Education Teacher in public and private schools and with theoreticians linked to the subject, proposes to study children's resistance and acceptance of body disciplining at school space. As methodological procedures were used: observation and interviews with teachers and students about the studied theme besides construction of field notes and expanded field notes. The conducting wire of the research writing is Lewis Carroll's story Alice in Wonderland. Children and childhood are themes studied from Ariès, Benjamin, and Bujes, Corazza e Vorraber; temporality, and childhood in Kohan, Kastrup and Larrosa; discipline, power, control in Foucault, Freire and Veiga-Neto; the body in Vigarello, Soares e Sant'anna and the school space in Lara and Clareto.