Children stories about primary schools: sceneries and (auto)biographic research challenges

• Published in: Educação (Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 85 - 104
• Main Authors: Maria da Conceição Passeggi, Ecleide Cunico Furlanetto, Luciane de Conti, Iduina Edite Mont´Alverne Chaves, Marineide de Oliveira Gomes, Gilvete Lima Gabriel, Simone Maria da Rocha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese; Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 01-01-2014
• Subjects: Escolas de Infância; Narrativas infantis; Pesquisa (auto)biográfica
• ISSN: 0101-9031; 1984-6444
• DOI: 10.5902/1984644411345

This study deals with 4-10 year-old children stories and analyses how they portrait their experiences at school. It is the outcome of an inter-institutional research project performed at schools in Natal, São Paulo, Recife, Niterói and Boa Vista. To collect data, we opted for conversations of children in groups of five, who would share a conversation with a little alien whose planet lacked schools. The analyses revealed consensus and tensions between scholar cultu - re and childhood cultures, which affect the way children play and learn, make friends or not, remain children or not. When narrating, the child redefines his/her experience and contributes to seize the primary school as a place where he/she becomes (or not) a citizen.