Teaching in Early Childhood Education WITH Children’s Participation

Abstract

The discussion presented here defends teaching in early childhood education with the participation of children. Believes that day care centers and preschools occupy a fundamental place in the construction of democracy, when they foster democratic relations in everyday pedagogical practices, as a way of life that insists on (re) existence and persists in weaving the collective and public life inscribed in the ethics of the encounter opposing the exclusion. At a juncture in which democracy finds itself in abyssal discredit and the offensive to social rights has a strong impact on the worlds of children, we consider that the theme of democratic education and child participation is particularly important and needs a deep debate on institutions of early childhood education, so that their educational-pedagogical projects and their practices are thought in the light of critical references and inspirers of new ways of life. This profound reflection will have to face our shy way of being democratic in a country that does not have the legacy of a truly democratic experience and which easily submits to the seductive way of life dictated by the market, as well as the adultocentrism that exists in pedagogical relations; This underscores our fragile condition that needs to be assumed by a rich thought, strong in opposition to what is set.