Linguagem corporal e educação escolar

Abstract

This research inserts itself in the Line of Philosophical and Epistemological Education Grounds. It starts from the estimated that the bodyness isn t a supplement but a pressing ground to the knowledge and the educational practice. Then the main question of the work: Has the body its language? How is it characterized? How can this language contribute for the education at the school? In search of an answer, this research begins its trajectory showing several looks about the body since the ancient times until nowadays, searching in the several areas of the knowledge, the philosophy, the biology, the neurology, the psychology, the anthropology and the education a partnership to ground this work. After that, we define what language is, how it appeared among the human beings and we concept body language. The task of connect body language and education, given the absence of works that establish this link or focus the utility of the body language in the education at the school, demanded a sounding in a limited space of the primary school searching to look for the embryonary experiences that happens there and its limits. At last, we propose starting from the theorical studies about the body, bodyness and body language, subsidies to the teachers dealing with this language in the educational practice.