“Hoje meu coração bateu na porta da minha casa”: o protagonismo das crianças nas rodas de conversa na creche

Abstract

This work, linked to the research line Discourse, Practices, Ideas and Subjectivities in Educational Processes of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) - Minas Gerais aimed to understand how child protagonism manifests itself in conversation circles of a group of three-year-old children in a crèche in the municipality of Juiz de Fora - Minas Gerais. It is a qualitative investigation, whose production and data analysis are based on the historical-cultural approach through the studies of Lev Vigotski and Mikhail Bakhtin about language in the constitution of subjects and in dialogue with childhood sociology, about the active participation of children. As methodological research procedures, participant observation of thirteen conversation circles, field notes, photographic records, video recordings and semi-structured interview with the class teacher were adopted. The data analyzed in this work were grouped into three axes of analysis: (I) knowledge that makes the wheel spin; (II) the imagination that gives meaning to the wheel; and (III) the estimate or mesures that move the wheel. For the critical appreciation of the chosen events, the use of vignettes was used as a technique that provides data analysis. Through the analyzes carried out it was possible to understand that even if the child protagonism is erased, the children subvert the linear routine of the conversation wheel, breaking with the established and revealing a protagonism that is conquered by them. They also showed that child protagonism can be enhanced when there is a sensitive and attentive look and listening by the adult to hear and understand the verbal and non-verbal languages that very young children produce.