Traçando mapas: a teoria histórico-cultural e as contribuições para a pesquisa com crianças e suas espacialidades

Abstract

This text seeks to reflect about the systematized research in the field of childhood, having as main focus the research strategies “with children”. The main focus are the relationships that children establishes with the environment, specificly their spatialities. Starting from the contributions of researches that provide strategies of qualitative nature and based on the contributions of the cultural historical theory, we elect the concept of vivência (perejivanie) as main point around which our works are developed. To do this, start tracing the origin of researches based on positivist paradigms and suggest some paths trying to break away from this perspectives: the ethnographic postulates of Malinovsky and Good; the symbolic interactionism, whose precursor is George Herbert Mead; the Ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel; the contributions of Marx and the principles laid down by Vygotsky and his collaborators