O encontro entre crianças e seus pares na escola: entre visibilidades e possibilidades

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the ways in which children express themselves (verbal and nonverbal) within the school context, especially in classrooms. The theoreticalmethodological support is the sociology of childhood, particularly the contributions of authors: Sarmento and Corsaro. This case study, based on ethnographic character, assumed that children are social beings, able to prepare and provide proper sense of the reality in which they are inserted. In this sense, through interaction with peers and adults build their own cultures. Participated in this study 20 children aged between 5 and 6 years beginning literacy. The case study was conducted in a classroom of one private school education of Juiz de Fora, MG. Used as instruments participant observation, video-recording of music lessons, the sessions of devolution, combined with oral account of children. It was possible to see how children organize themselves into groups of pairs defined in the school context, and resistance to what they were asked a salient factor in these constitutions group. We also noticed that the aspects related to gender issues appeared significantly in the interaction between children. Furthermore, we found that the devolution as a methodological procedure proves an enriching resource in research with children.