I HAVE NO TIME TO WAIT! BABIES EXPERIENCE WITH TIME IN THE DAY CARE CENTER

Abstract

The present article focuses on the temporal organization proposed in the day care Center and the ways of living the time for the baby in this space. This ethnographic research was conducted in a public daycare center in the southern Santa Catarina state. The research subjects were a group of twelve babies and four adults, two teachers in each period. The time organization proposed by the adults in the day care center was evidenced, and it is governed by the clock chronology, marked by the lightening, fragmentation and mechanization of daily actions. However, babies do not live this organization in a passive or static way. They resist and transgress the proposed time, seeking to live other relationships that are not foreseen by adults, but which are important and necessary for them. These facts indicate the need and urgency to (re) think about the organization of the time proposed in the day care center, in order to consider the experiences and rhythms of the babies who live there daily.