ABSTRACT

The thematic focus of this theoretical essay, anchored in language, thematizes the child and early childhood education from a decolonial discourse. Problematizing the colonial perspective of education, children and early childhood education is announced as its intentionality. The problem can be formulated as this: What are the implications of a decolonial attitude in the education of early childhood education children? The path of reflection is organized into three movements. The first focuses on conceptual discussions of colonial terms, decolonization, postcolonialism and decoloniality. The second visits the modern colonial discourse of children and the pedagogical heritage that sustains it. And, finally, a third movement that weaves considerations about the decolonial discourse and its implications for a pedagogy for early childhood education. The reflexive path allows us to visualize that the dominant pedagogical idearies in the education of children are colonizers. Thus, it is maintained that a rupture in the colonizing perspective requires decolonizing power; knowledge; the being; the predominant life, gaze and thought of children’s education, to think about a decolonial pedagogy of/to/with childhood.

Keyword:
Decoloniality; Early Childhood Education; Child; Childhood