“Não é de verdade, é só um desenho”: de que nos falam os desenhos infantis?

Abstract

This study investigates the children's drawings as an educational research object and it is focused on drawings produced by students of the Early Childhood Education from an art and childhood school from the city of Pelotas. The theme focuses on the discussion of children?s drawings from the Sociology of Childhood in a dialogue with the Education. As a general goal, we intend to identify the different elements represented by the children in their drawings, in relation to the themes of education (scholar or not), society, culture and school, to enable rethink education and childhood in contemporaneity, according to children themselves. As main concepts are included the childhood culture and the interpretive reproduction. Our hypothesis is that the drawings may represent childhood as a culture review, laden with cultural values and characteristics of childhood cultures, questioning the researcher?s and adult?s places and reviewing their certainties. It is hoped that this work collaborate with the Early Childhood Education and with the understanding of children as social actors able to reflect on the reality in which they live and capable to influence the social environment they compose.