Narratives of young children about the role of early childhood education installed in an elementary school
Children's Narratives. Early Childhood Education. Elementary School.
The text presents ongoing research, to be appreciated in the qualification process of the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Santa Catarina - Campus Camboriú. The research is part of the field of education in dialogue with the Social Studies of Childhood, more specifically, with the Sociology of Childhood that contributes to the understanding of childhood as a social category of the generational type and of children as social actors, producers, and reproducers of cultures, inserted in a social reality that influences them, but is also influenced by them. We started from this conceptual-theoretical prerogative to outline the object of concern of this research, which bypasses the institutionalization of childhood in school and the subjects that inhabit it: children. From this understanding comes the central question of this study: from the narratives of young children, what is the role of Early Childhood Education installed in an elementary school? To address this issue, ethnography was used, with a view to attentive observation and sensitive listening to the narratives of children in a group, named Preschoolers from 5 to 6 years old, on Early Childhood Education installed in an elementary school in the city de Blumenau - SC. This proposition attributes centrality to subjects who, historically, have been marginalized and placed in a position of human potential and not as subjects in the present. Until the moment of the research, it is possible to perceive nuances of places built for children and by them, not only from the perspective of provision and protection but also of participation.