Resisting for/with childhood to continue to exist: transcript of 21 livestreams on childhoods and early childhood education in the pandemic Covid 19

Abstract

Starting from the emergence of considering children and childhoods in the proposals aimed at early childhood education in this scenario of a non-face-to-face education in the context of the pandemic, in this publication of the section Other languages of the Zero-a-Seis magazine, we gather transcripts of speeches extracted from livestream videos broadcast on Youtube from April to july 2020. The livestreams were located based on a previous survey performed by researcher Natalia Francisca Cardia dos Santos, published in the special edition "Covid-19: Educação em tempos de pandemia" of the Olhar de professor magazine and selected using as criteria the fact that they deal with themes related to early childhood education in times of Covid-19 from the perspective of the defense of both children and childhoods, with a contribution to childhood pedagogy and childhood sociology. Considering that it is essential to enable an intersectional view of the social and political context that permeates education and educational policies, we have also included in our selection some live stream videos in which we approach themes such as racism in early childhood education, gender relations, and the relationship between feminism and public education policies for early childhood education, broadcast until August of the same year. We live in an unprecedented time in which important topics like these are being discussed, studied and reflected upon together through computer screens and shared on social media which, although present themselves as a legitimate mobilization strategy, imply the risk that we lose the preciousness of these exchanges and analyses in the midst of the time and logic of digital speed. When we launched the challenge of dividing into other languages, together with the 49 researchers (women and men) who have accepted the invitation to join us, we gathered dialogues from various places in Brazil, with records transcribed by the authors themselves, faithful to what was said in that moment, except for some necessary changes made in some words to make it  possible to understand what was said, cuts from longer excerpts and/or examples making the writing/reading structure more objective and compact, yet preserving the content, which remains with the irality marks and the space-time contextuality of when they were transmitted live, and organized by date of transmission. In this manner, we give rise to the fact that the transcribed speeches themselves account for locating the events in this chronological delimitation, functioning as a kind of retrospective of what was materiality to live streams that add so many looks and points of view on this theme, we have composed a documentary collection in multiple axes, and from here on we continue with the hopes that the union of forces of the spoken and written word will be a powerful and relevant instrument for those who risk, at this or another time, dreaming and living education in favor of a more citizen life for all people, resisting and daring along with the childhood to continue to exist in times of Covid-19 and whatever outcomes from that period.