That's how you are a child": when childhood silences in Early Childhood Education (and in life)

Abstract

This article arises from a doctoral research in development and aims to problematize the space occupied by childhood in a kindergarten school. During the first half of 2021, in the pandemic context of the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 disease, 23 children in group III (3-year-old children) were followed through observations and conversations. three teachers. Along with the epistemological references of childhood, cartography and complexity, childhood is discussed and how it has been considered in society and in education. From this, Early Childhood Education is established as a territory and, through a historical retake, its constitution indicates that this stage is seen as an inferior policy, as well as its inhabitants: children. Finally, some discussions are presented about the first semester of meetings at school, in which the pandemic context enhanced the ways of silencing children. It concludes the urgency of a new possibility of Early Childhood Education that must be sought in childhood.