Childhood, experience and performance: first approaches

• Main Authors: Sandro Vinicius Sales dos Santos, Isabel de Oliveira e Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2014-08-01
• Series: Zero-a-seis
• Subjects: infância; crianças; educação infantil; experiência infantil; ponto de vista das crianças
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/zeroseis/article/view/27991
• ISSN: 1980-4512

This paper presents and discusses some preliminary results of a Master thesis aimed to examine the experiences of children of four years within a public institution of early childhood education. The study of interpretative character seeks its theoretical basis in the sociology of childhood and childhood pedagogy and child education. From the methodological point of view, the research is based on a case study (ANDREW, 1991; SARMENTO, 2003) assuming a logic of ethnographic research (NUT, 2004; GREEN, DIXON, ZAHALIRICK, 2005), the main data collection instruments data, participant observation, photographs and drawings articulated with orality; Interviews with children, among others. It also discusses the notion of childhood experience as the possibility of analysis of the forms of sociability of children