Abstract

ALMEIDA, Tiago. The government of childhood: playing as a technique of the self. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.70, n.spe, pp. 152-166. ISSN 1809-5267.

Our understanding of childhood and the role of play has been changing over time. This text intends to analyse and to question, from the writings of Rousseau, Pestalozzi and Froebel, how play can be assumed and considered as a technology of subjectivation of childhood and, with that, define its "to-be" and how. In this sense, this paper proposes to discuss play as a device for normalization, subjectivation and governance of what a child can and cannot do. The focus of analysis will be on how the perspectives on children's play, on the one hand, delimitate what a child should be and, on the other hand, how this delimitation anticipates the project of an adult to come.

Keywords : Childhood; Play; Subjectivation; Technique of self.

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