O corpo na Educação Infantil – Autoconhecimento e Aprendizagem
Body domain; Self-knowledge; Child education; Sociopsychomotricity Ramain-Thiers.
The object of this investigation is to reveal the presence of the body, in the space of Early Childhood Education, through the interaction between self-knowledge and body control, in professional practice, from the perspective of Sociopsychomotricity Ramain-Thiers. This therapeutic approach makes it possible to relive the emotional issues that permeate self-knowledge and autonomy, through psychomotor experience. The central question involves understanding how the professionals of a Creche Escola, in Manaus/AM, evaluate the corporal experience that psychomotricity has given them, and how this experience can help in the rethinking of a learning project linked to young children. The theoretical foundations were anchored in phenomenology, based on the phenomenon of learning, in the space of Being-there, through the practice of Sociopsychomotricity Ramain-Thiers, which uses psychoanalytic concepts as the central foundation of bodily experience. Urie Bronfenbrenner (2002), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2015), Maria Rita Kehl (2003) and Henri Wallon (1998) provide theoretical arguments for exploratory qualitative research. Data construction was operationalized through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with Early Childhood Education professionals who performed psychomotor work sequences with the researcher over 18 years. Data interpretation was made possible through content analysis, according to the concepts of Laurence Bardin (2010). The results found were the perception that self-knowledge, through body control, effectively contributes to the planning of activities of professionals working in Early Childhood Education, as well as favoring a more significant learning process for children in early childhood.