With the aim of listening to stories told by the founding group of the Permanent Forum of Early Childhood Education of Rio de Janeiro/FPEI-RJ, the research presents the history of the creation of the Forum - in the 1990s - told by the intellectuals interviewed. The thesis analyzes the intertwining of the participation of these intellectuals in the process of creating the Forum and in the public policies of Early Childhood Education, revealing their itineraries and insertion in the social spaces and political activism that constituted experiences/trajectories and reiterates the encounter between the individual and the collective in the story in which they were co-participants. The reports, defined as oral sources, confirm the perspective of oral history, which allows for versions of history based on listening to multiple and different narrators. The dialectical relationship between practice and theory, from the theoretical perspectives of Bakhtin and Gramsci, enabled an approach in which language and the subject are treated as dynamic and unfinished, (capable of questioning and resisting forces), a broad and deep view of the dynamics social issues and possibilities for change. The subjects of this research are understood as organic intellectuals of a social movement that marks culture in the field of Early Childhood Education, whose characteristic is the association between thought, knowledge and social practice linked to the world of work, political and cultural organizations. Understood as a collective intellectual, the Permanent Forum of Early Childhood Education of Rio de Janeiro occupies the position of mobilizer and articulator of the struggle for the cause of young children, in a process of multiple trajectories and diverse instances, which involves disputes between the interests of different subjects and projects, in order to be configured itself as a movement of permanent discussion and action.