Based on the emerging discourses of body, particularly Merleau-Ponty\'s Phenomenology of Perception,
this study examined pre-service early teachers\' body schema through a movement class. The movement
class was carefully designed to help early childhood teachers awake, perceive and habituated their own
body sense with various activities involving delightful music, movie, and attractive tools and materials.
Seventy pre-service early childhood teachers who enrolled in the movement class for 15 weeks
participated in this study.
The data included informal interviews, reflective journals, evaluate sheet of the class, and journal
of researcher. At the beginning, the pre service early teachers showed deep concern and a sense of
strange feeling on moving their own body. However, they gradually became to feel a sense of joy and
willingness to move their body as the class went through with a variety body activities that stimulate
their memory of body. They also demonstrated a sense of confidence to design and demonstrate
movement classes by seeing a movement through an artistic sense and knowledge about \'body schema.\'
This study suggests to reconceptualize movement class for young children by focusing on early childhood
teachers\' own body and body movement as a practical knowledge.