A Produção da infância: é preciso transver as brincadeiras infantis

Abstract

The problematization of childhood production by children's play is the main focus of this work. The work’s objectives are: to map out the games used in two Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education (CMEI), and describe the childhood ideas produced by the games used by the teachers of the Municipal Children's Education Centers - CMEI. We take Michel Foucault's (1996) discourse studies as a theoretical-methodological tool, because we assume that the discourses that constitute and/or cross the child's play produce ideas of childhood that are true and natural. In the first chapter, we talk about the games that were part of my childhood, establishing an approximation with some concepts of childhood present in the literature. This narrative is constructed from the discussion of the concepts of enunciation, discourse and pedagogization. In the second chapter, we describe the children's games present at two CMEIs, where I undertook two supervised internships. We chose four utterances present in the discourses of these games as producers of childhood ideas: free play (which produces childhood of the imagination); playing with educational purposes (which produces a childhood of miniature adults); compensatory play (which produces a disciplinary childhood); playing for compulsion (which produces a childhood of rights). The empirical analysis allows us to denaturalize childhood as a process / period considered as natural in the development of the child, as well as discussing the objectives of the games that are in the daily life of Early Childhood Education in Manaus.