INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD: AN ANALYSIS OF CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES FROM EXPERIENCES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND FAMILY
CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
This dissertation is the result of a master's degree research carried out with the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Instituto Federal Catarinense, in the line of research on Fo rmative processes and educational policies. The research is inscribed in the field of education in dialogue with / between the sociology of childhood, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and, the unfolding of this interdisciplinary path, helped to broaden the understanding of concepts to study, such as: child, childhood, children's narratives, institutionalization of childhood, woven in the molds of an ethnographic craftsmanship. We started from these theoretical conceptual prerogatives to outline the objec t of interest in this research, which bypasses the institutionalization of childhood in the school space from the questions of the subjects who inhabit it: children. From this understanding, the central question of this study arises: from the children's na rratives, what are the perspectives on the institutionalization process of childhood in the school space? To address this issue, ethnography was used, with a view to attentive observation and sensitive listening to the narratives of children in a group, ca lled preschoolers from 5 to 6 years old, of early childhood education installed in an elementary school in the municipality of Blumenau SC. This proposition attributes centrality to subjects who, historically, have been marginalized and in a position of human potential and not as subjects in the present. The children's narratives bring us closer to their different ways of experiencing such institutionalization, giving a view to secondary adjustments, that is, their escapes from the order instituted by adu lts. With this ethnographic research with children and not about them, it is possible to realize that, even though an institutionalized place for childhood has been demarcated, children, narrators of their experiences, lead us to think about a new institut ionalization, committed to respecting their multiple ways of thinking, feeling and expressing, with the experience of childhood.