Early childhood education as a right and joy

How can we empower encounters that bring joy? By believing in children's desires and investing in their ability to choose.

In schools, children spend hours indoors, learning to obey, absorbing content often far removed from their interests. Lea Tiriba's work points the way toward an education committed to the health of children and the planet, seeking concepts and practices that reconnect humans with nature and say no to consumerism and waste.

Based on extensive field and bibliographic research, Early Childhood Education as a Right and Joy suggests respect for the will of the body. It discourages the "walling" of children and proposes a learning process that reorganizes the relationship between educators and students, questioning the centrality of teachers in the pedagogical process and fostering the emergence of horizontal relationships.

Inspired by libertarian thinkers such as Paulo Freire, Lev Vygotsky, Félix Guatarri, Boaventura de Souza Santos, Leonardo Boff, and others, Early Childhood Education as a Right and Joy invites us to embrace planetary solidarity. Instead of concrete, walls, and fences, a future that allows for bodily movement, inventiveness, free creation, the capacity for choice, and encounters that generate joy.