ABSTRACT

In this paper, in an essay format, we pursue the reflection delimited by a dichotomy in Early Childhood Education where, on the one hand, time is tracked, measured, regulated by the oppression of clocks of adults, conceived by the objectivity of numbers, schedules and routines, representative of the thought and rationalized world. On the other hand, we have the time felt and perceived by the children, the subjectivity, the experience and the fact, representatives of the lived world. We conclude that, despite the social aspect of time, allowing children to broaden their creative and inventive capacities by playing is an ethical-political attempt to face the instrumentalization of time and its power in the school experience.

Keywords:
Playing; Time; Rationality; Child Education