Cientistas na sala de aula: interações com bonecos e discussões sobre o trabalho científico entre crianças do 3º ano do ensino fundamental

Abstract

This study investigates children’s participation in activities that address directly the issue of scientists’ images, and that involve play with “scientists’ dolls”. It aims to describe and to understand processes of building relations between children, science and the scientist. The participants were 3rd graders from two different classes. Informed by Ethnography of Education and based on field notes and video records derived from participant observation, we developed initially macroscopic analysis, identifying significative events from each class to develop a microscopic analysis based on transcripts. In the two classes participants’ interactions with the dolls provided opportunities to engage in social practices of school Science. However, each class’ history, and characteristics of the doll had consequences for how the interactions and knowledge was constructed.