BUBBLING CULTURAL ARTIFACTS IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION RESEARCH:

constitution of small children's subjectivities.

Abstract

As human creations, cultural artifacts are indisputably broad, complex, diverse and therefore valuable supports for and in institutional and non-institutional educational processes. This article aims to present and discuss 03 cultural artifacts that bubbled in 03 Early Childhood Education institutions with the mediation of educators working in these institutions. This boiling context was the research approved by FAPEMIG entitled: Public Policies for Early Childhood Education and educational processes in the cities that make up the Southern Minas Gerais Forum for Early Childhood Education. The empirical material, which will be problematized, will include the experiences of educators and children: 1. with the film Inside Out, directed by Keslsey Mann (2024); 2. a cocoon found by children outside an Early Childhood Education Center and 3. a game involving the birth of a doll in the space of a toy library. The theoretical references to support these discussions fall within the scope of the Sociology of Childhood, Cultural Studies and the Philosophy of Gaston Bachelard in relation to the issues of Imaginary, Reason and Knowledge as well as Cultural Studies with an emphasis on cultural artifacts. The child as a subject of rights is a being in the constitution of his/her/their subjectivity and is central to our reflections. We also consider that reason and imagination, in the Bachelardian sense, are powerful structuring and structured elements of the human condition itself and will be problematized based on the experiences arising from the research on display.