Abstract

REZENDE, Paula Cristina Medeiros; FERREIRA, Ludmilla Dell'Isola Pelegrini de Melo  and  ARAUJO, Marcella Oliveira. Childhoods and their children: shooting the (serious) breeze. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2010, vol.3, n.2, pp.149-159. ISSN 1983-8220.

The objective of this research is to analyze the meanings built and negotiated by children and researchers from certain positions assumed while talking during an exercise called "shooting the (serious) breeze". The study was developed in public squares, with four participants, three boys and a girl, aged between four and seven. The analysis included four themes, as follows: 1) Discovering "inquiring" children; 2) "Questions are meant for conversation": discussing a research tool with children; 3) Negotiation of meanings; and 4) researcher under training. The specific relational framing used in this study made it possible to recognize the potentiality of the findings while talking with the children and allowed a reflection about how we collaborate, as adult researchers, with the process of constitution of childhood and research with children.

Keywords : Childhood; Child; Social Constructivism; Interview.

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