FINDINGS OF CHILDHOOD: MARKS OF RELATIONS AMONG BABIES AND ADULTS IN THE NURSERY SPACE

Abstract

This text has the focus on problematize the space of early childhood education from marks relations among babies and adults found in the nursery. As Argumentative feature, it presents elements of two thesis in master education degree (PANDINI-SIMIANO, 2010; GOBBATO, 2011), which were focused on the babies education in collective spaces. The axis for approach between the two studies happens on the search for understanding how babies occupy, mark and relate to/within the nursery. As a result, we emphasize the importance of the materiality of space as an element that educates, informs, and reflects ideas and messages. In the dialogue between the two surveys, we observed the babies’ uniqueness, and that their marks gain low visibility in the educational context, and they are often placed as second. While physical expression, the whiteness and color found in space reveal con(tra)ditions which tell about ways to be baby and live their childhood in the nursery.