ABSTRACT
This paper shares contributions of a research developed at master’s level, which assumed as problematic to investigate the regulatory forms of an institution of Early Childhood Education, using methodological procedures from ethnography, such as: written, photographic and film records in a public early childhood. The empirical elements, resulting from the ethnography, occurred with a group of children from three to five years of age and the data revealed the presence of a hierarchy put a priori in intergenerational relations and consolidated in the form of institutional rules. It was analyzed, therefore, a mismatch between the children’s right to participation and the institutional rules put in the context, especially at the moment of the round of conversation proposed by the teachers. The Sociology of Childhood studies were used to constitute the analyzes, a dialogue that allowed to consider that the talk wheel, despite being taken as a possibility to promote the participation of children in what concerns decisions in educational context, needs to be problematized to the light of the events and their effective organization in educational practices, with special emphasis on the times and spaces in which the talk wheel was proposed for the children.
Keywords:
Child education; Regulatory forms; Participation; Moment of the wheel