Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as a horizon for research in education.
Phenomenology. Intentionality. Body. Intersubjectivity.
This article is a philosophical essay on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as a method and its implications for research in the field of education. Grounded in phenomenology, we analyze methodological aspects of research on the body, including the intentionality of consciousness, phenomenological reduction, and intersubjectivity permeated by a sensitive logic as an alternative for the construction of knowledge. We present an example of research that incorporates the phenomenological approach in early childhood education, considering the study developed by Marina Marcondes Machado. An understanding of the analyzed material offers a theoretical and methodological contribution regarding the relationships between body perception, the intentionality of consciousness, and intersubjectivity as expressive figures for research in education. The child's experience is a polysemic source for understanding phenomenology, considering the relationship with the body, play, and creation configured on the plane of the sensitive logic that permeates the method.