RESEARCH ABOUT/WITH CHILDREN IN TIMES OF A PANDEMIC: CHILDREN'S SENSES ABOUT PLAY IN THE CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CURRICULUM

This research aimed to understand how the meanings of a group of 6 children aged 4 and 5 years old, through their sayings about playing, mobilized the Early Childhood Education curriculum, through the constitutive relationship between games and the curriculum, especially during the conjuncture unprecedented form of remote education resulting from the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus. The locus of the research was the Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education in Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Bahia. The research method was constituted as qualitative, in interface with the exploratorydescriptive methodology. In light of the analyses, it was possible to reveal the predominance of the schooling bias that pointed to a structure of the Early Childhood Education curriculum distanced from the curricular axes interactions and games, at the same time that it was reinvented in a predominantly transmissive and decontextualized way of an education for children. childhoods, constructed dialectically with them in the pandemic scenario.