ATIVIDADES EXTRACURRICULARES NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: ADULTOCENTRISMO E SEUS IMPACTOS FORMATIVOS

Abstract

The ongoing research aims to investigate the relationship between adults and children in early childhood education, with emphasis on the impact of extracurricular activities for children aged four to six enrolled in private schools in the city of Três Lagoas-MS. Methodologically, our approach centers on qualitative research using documents and data collection/production through a questionnaire applied to teachers as an ethnographic instrument. The debate is based on theoretical references from Education, Sociology of Childhood and Pedagogy of Childhood, among others. Our main hypothesis is that the adult-child relationship, mediated by extracurricular activities, can foster the invisibility of children as historical subjects of rights and duties. This procedure can also project onto them a prototype of an adult (beyond conceiving them as miniature adults) that hinders the potential of their autonomy. By conceiving children as a prototype of an adult, it projects onto them the continuity of a world already conceived by adults. Therefore, once extracurricular activities are centered on an adult-centric perspective, they become excessive and can hinder development, maturation, and the formation of affective bonds, when they do not demotivate the impulse to apprehend reality subjectively. However, these activities are what make private schools attractive to the adults responsible for the children. In the permanent deception of the pursuit of happiness, some children surrender to the candor of the barking of the goddess Scylla2 when taken as part of the configuration of neoliberal capitalism.