O encontro com crianças filhas de catadores de papel: sinalizações para uma creche e uma pesquisa com a "nossa cara"

Abstract

The research with some under six year old children of paper collector families has two main goals. First, to gather information from the these boys and girls to found the work at a public kindergarten that receives them. Second, discuss about the implications of the elements indicated by them to the research on children. As a resource of the qualitative research, being with the kids was the best way to understand the space that exists between the reality of their lives and what school expects from the people that suffer social exclusion. The relations established by scientist and these children for the occasion of the research showed how important is to be open to the novelty that each childhood presents. The guide-lines for our dialogue was the way they make their selves present in the world: the gesture, the silence, the smile, the way they glance and play. The meeting with the children of paper collectors families revealed the possibility of public kindergarten be a place that accept the novelty that children indicate. Research can also be a space for that. The academic investigation and educational practices that deal with children could be truly be based on the principle that we all are even small and social excluded people subjects of culture and knowledge.