Chronotopies of the Meeting: childhood, university and social movements

Abstract

ABSTRACT This text aims to talk about the importance of the meeting between the university and social movements, focusing on the production of knowledge about childhood, as well as its politicization. Inspired by the work of Mayana Redin, we bring to the fore a story of Brazilian childhood forged in struggle, a story of social movements told from the participation of children, and the academic look at the participation of children in social struggles. It is in this sense that we named the discussion as a “chronotopy of meetings”, to the extent that we are interested in the stories and the political sense that permeate the possibilities of meetings between teaching, research, social struggles and children. To this end, we researched academic productions undertaken at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels of the Faculty of Education of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in the last five years, specifically in the field of Childhood Studies, in order to observe their correlations with the curriculum and the academic trajectory of the university, that prepares its teachers (pedagogos) to work in social movements. As a result, we signal the incipience and, on the other hand, the urgent need for research in this convergence of fields, affirming the importance of the displacements that such productions cause in the curriculum, in the socialized production of knowledge, as well as in the praxis of daily struggles.