Horizon of possibilities in the humanization of babies in a collective-life context: between flaps and narratives
Babies; Nursery; Child Education; Human formation; Heteroscience; Bakhtin Circle.
This study intended to understand how babies continue their human formation in a collective-life context. The research was done in a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education in the city of Mesquita – located in Baixada Fluminense-RJ. It counted with the direct participation of nine babies between 10 to 16 months old and six educators (two teachers and four class assistants). We weave our understandings with the threads of Bakhtin's Philosophy of Language and his Circle of studies. Intertwined with other thinkers’ threads that address different aspects of the babies' living conditions and some authors of Childhood Studies. We pull the methodological threads of the educational research narrative as textual materiality to understand knowledge from lived experiences; the threads of the utterances and their dialogical relations as a privileged element in the search for the understanding and the interpretation of the senses and the comparison to make the meanings present in the interactions emerge. The writing process as an author researcher is part of the project developed by the research group GEPELID-UFRRJ on “heteroscience”, which led us to build our aesthetic plan seeking inspiration in the art of “crazy patchwork”, where we organized the text in ten pieces/events that allowed us to reflect on the constitutive relationships between babies and adults who inhabit the daycare space of the daycare center; to know how babies affect and are affected in relationships with others (baby, educators, objects and environment); to understand how the activities of educating-caring contribute to the process of subjectification of babies and how relationships in the day care center can offer a horizon of possibilities in human formation. From the experiences lived in the nursery class, we understand that babies who shared a context of collective life continue the process of human formation, because, as free, expressive and unpredictable subjects, they experience at all times, they constitute different relationships, they are active partners in activities, they share intentions, they are powerful in their statements, they have discursive projects, they build knowledge and defend them, they have interpretive knowledge, they use different languages to communicate their desires and escape what they are not interested in, direct the focus of their attention, they look at the world with power and are always open to the new.