Bodies, knowledge, and childhood: an inventory for studying body education in school environment for children 0 to 6 years of age

Abstract

Through an ethnographical research in a public school for children in Florianópolis, we observed and analyzed some points to compose an agenda for studying body education. The elements that compose the pedagogic interventions of the body, both in Physical Education classes and in other times and spaces of children education, were involved in routine and have aimed the elimination of all decontrols that jeopardize rationality.