Peer-reviewed article
SOCIOLOGY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
José Edimario dos Santos Souza, Heloísa Tacyelle Santos Gomes, Aurineia Maria da Silva, Débora Paula Alves Pereira, Givaldo Dos Santos Lins et al. ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This article examines how children are socialized in early childhood education settings, focusing on the social construction of the 'student' role at this educational level. The authors explore the relationships between early childhood education, families, children, and their socialization processes. The work considers how contemporary society is tending to start formal schooling earlier and how this relates to changing concepts of childhood and social factors like family structures and women's workforce participation. The research emphasizes how early childhood education aims to develop discipline, habits, and knowledge to prepare children for school and social life.
Key points
- Early childhood education involves the social construction of the 'student' role, which goes beyond simple academic preparation
- There is a contemporary tendency in society to anticipate or bring forward the schooling of children
- This early schooling trend is connected to transformations in how childhood and 'being a child' are understood socially
- Social and economic factors including family structure, gender roles, women's labour participation, and economic pressures on families influence early childhood education approaches
- Early childhood education institutions work to instill discipline, habits, and knowledge as preparation for future schooling and social life
Limitations
This is a bibliographic/theoretical article based on literature review rather than empirical research, so it cannot provide data on outcomes or effectiveness of any specific early childhood education practices. The document does not specify which countries' early childhood education systems are examined, limiting geographical applicability.
Abstract
This article is due to bibliographic research and aims to ask the questions about the socialization of children in early childhood education and, more specifically, to understand aspects of the social construction of the so -called “student craft” at this level of education. It was intended to unravel the relationships involving early childhood education, families, children and their socialization. Starting from the assumption that there is currently a tendency in society to anticipate the schooling of the child and that this is related to both the transformations of the senses of childhood and “being a child” and specific social conditions, such as forms of family configuration , the division of labor between the sexes, the role of women and their place in the sphere of production, as well as the properly economic pressures about families. The theoretical contribution of this study lies in the interface of childhood sociology with the sociology of education. Thus, it was possible to highlight their commitments to awaken in children early attitudes of discipline and certain habits and knowledge to prepare it for the school and social “future”.