"Ué Thaís... Você não brinca?”: Relatos de uma adulta sobre os dizeres das crianças nos/dos espaços externos de uma creche

Abstract

This dissertation is linked to the line of research “Languages, Cultures and Knowledge of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The investigation focused on addressing the external spaces of a daycare center and was dedicated to recording and reflecting on the spatial experience of young children in this scale located in the municipality of Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais, in the southeast of the territory of the Brazilian federation. . Its central objective was to understand children's statements and the spatialization of their lives in this institution. To achieve this, an age group was created that considered children aged 3 years old. It was based on studies of Cultural Historical Theory, systematized by Lev Semionovitch Vygotski and collaborators in Russia after the October Revolution, and dialogued with other theoretical postulates from the Field of Childhood Studies, such as the Sociology of Childhood and the Geography of Childhood. Adopting qualitative strategies, based on ethnographically inspired studies, data production consists of participant observation, recording of field notes, photographs, filming and children's drawings. From this, it was possible to bring some considerations about children's experiences in these spaces. Highlighting the plurality of languages expressed by children in these spatializations: the curious looks, the movements and displacements, the oral narratives full of imagination and the games that emerged spontaneously. These expressions revealed the richness of children's interactions, showing how they appropriate and transform external spaces.