"Chama o h": the silencing of bodies in Early Childhood Education and the 1st year of Elementary School”
Body. Silencing. Early childhood education. First stage of elementary school. Enforcement of silence.
The study “‘Chama o h’: the silencing of bodies in Early Childhood Education and the 1st year of Elementary School” analyzes the reality of two institutions. Characterized as a qualitative case study, its methodology and data analysis are based on various works by Karl Marx (2010, 2011). The research problem is to prove the existence of silence in Early Childhood Education and Elementary School. Therefore, as a general objective, we seek to prove the existence of the silencing of bodies in Early Childhood Education and 1st grade of Elementary School and its influence on the subjective construction of individuals. The specific objectives were: To analyze the process of silencing in Early Childhood Education and the 1st year of Elementary School; to identify teachers' understanding of children's bodies in Early Childhood Education and the 1st year of Elementary School; to elucidate the contribution of silencing to the subjective construction of people at the time of the research. Based on reality, we understand that, within a society organized according to a capitalist economic model, unfortunately, we find in schools a process that we call enforcement of silence, a process that is ironically very silent, but existent, and that, in turn, occurs through the professionals who should awaken critical thinking: teachers.