2022-10-052022-10-052022-08-31BRITO, Pâmella Gomes de. A corporalidade da criança e a instituição de educação infantil: reflexões iniciais a partir da teoria histórico cultural. 2022. 121 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação Física) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2022.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/12350The present study, outlined by qualitative research, based on dialectical historical materialism, aims to understand the determinants of the child's teaching, development and instruction processes, wich are methodological action guides in the educational practice of Early Childhood Education, and seeks to apprehend the insertion of the field of Physical Education and its possibilities of contribution to the area. For that, we start from the Historical Cultural Theory when we raise the thesis that the pedagogical practice, in the scope of the methodology and the use of mediating activities in the teaching process and selection of contents in Early Childhood Education, is displaced from the instruction and development of the child. By abstracting the categories work, State, family, woman, race and child, the research seeks to situate Physical Education and its role in Early Childhood Education as a prerogative for the expanded formation and complexification of children's rights, dimensioning the historical, legal and formative forms of corporeality, as well as its relevance and validity in child development and instruction, which led us to the analysis of some documents that organize Early Childhood Education in Brazil, such as the RCNEI, DCNEI, BNCC, among others, and allowed us to point out that the Religious, eugenic and gender aspects still remain ingrained as main elements in the legal consolidations that govern the institution of Early Childhood Education.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalTeoria histórico culturalDesenvolvimento e instruçãoEducação infantilEducação FísicaHistorical-cultural theoryDevelopment and instructionEarly childhood educationPhysical EducationCIENCIAS DA SAUDE::EDUCACAO FISICADissertação