A look at children's body(ies) in pandemic times

Abstract

This article, in essay form, aims to bring a discussion about the relationships between childhood, children and body(ies) in pandemic times. It considers the child paradigm as a subject of rights in order to question how these rights have been guaranteed (or not), comprising the childhood category in its multiple determinations: social, political, economic, historical and cultural. In order to follow the debate, facts involving children in the pandemic were taken from four as analysis data, collected from materials published in electronic media. The first section discusses the impacts of social isolation on children's bodies, with the interruption of face-to-face care in Early Childhood Education in the pandemic. The second section addresses the impacts of social distancing for children, in their interaction dynamics.  These prohibitions on the corporal dimension of children in the context of Early Childhood Education present all childhood researchers and teachers as major challenge to face, in this is, at the same time, an urgent need to new research.