Crianças no museu: experiências de educação, cultura e lazer no Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade na Cidade de Belo Horizonte - MG

Abstract

This study is the result of an investigation in the line of research on leisure and society of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program of the School of Physical Education, Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. This is a survey of participant observation in a qualitative approach, carried out with a group of children from four schools of the Municipal Belo Horizonte. Study participants were children enrolled in kindergarten, aged 4-5 years, and the early grades of elementary school, aged 8-9 years. The research took place in the timeline of the second half of 2014, when the children, with their respective schools to get know at the Cultural Circuit Praça da Liberdade, museums UFMG Knowledge Center and Memorial Minas Gerais Valley. The research object of study lies in the uniqueness of children's leisure experiences from the interlacing school and museums in a dialogue that took place in three stages: before, during and after they know the museums. The research focused on trimming the experiences of children observed in different spaces and times of schools and museums of the city of Belo Horizonte that make up the International and Brazilian Network of Educating Cities. The issues raised as a problem of the research were: What languages are driven by children in the act of living and report their leisure experiences in the intertwined areas of school and museum? What meanings and significanses attributed to these experiences? These experiences can be configured as the child's pleasure? The research was mainly aimed to broaden the debate on children's leisure and the interdependence with the school, museum, playful culture and educational processes. To this end, the projects were considered: Educating City to educate and Integrated School Program (IEP) of the Municipal Department of Education (SMED). The theoretical research in March is in the leisure field interface Marcellino (2000, 2005, 2012) and the field of Philosophy of Education, with Larrosa (2010, 2015), among other contemporary authors who research on education, culture and leisure. Empirical research was methodological framework urban anthropology Magnani (2012). It is sought, the singularities of children's experiences, a sense of living in the museum, in school and in the city, the child's play culture. The methodological procedures were based on literature review, interviews and participant observation. It is defined as categories of analysis: temporality, spatiality and child role of languages. The survey results showed that in school interlaced space, the museum and the city, children live recreational experiences, and those in favor of school learning, of human formation and playful cultural constituting the child's leisure process