Alfabetizações cotidianas: lendo o espaço, descobrindo o mundo e escrevendo a palavramundo nos anos iniciais

Abstract

One of the routes traced in the path of the investigation with the children of middle school, from Escola Municipal Diógenes Ribeiro de Mendonça, located in the city of Niterói / Rio de Janeiro, led me to the encounter of experiences, narratives and child voices. The children help me comprehend how I am taught to read and write daily inside the interpretation of the school area. As I learn with the children, I am (in) forming myself, from their (in) formation. The research as part of formation, which I am developing, in my master s degree course in Universidade Federal Fluminense, has been teaching me to learn with the children whom, besides being apprentices, teach how to teach. Paths that lead to other paths, the Escuta Ssensível ( Barbier ) and the Geografia Existencial (Milton Santos) makes it possible to the teacher and the children to trace the image-maps of the quotidian in the class room. The methodological option of research with children is based on the children themselves. I discovered with Walter Benjamin that the narratives of children can reveal the wealth of their daily life experiences. This way, their discoveries, their way of being and creating, are treated as investigation s documents, that have helped me comprehend the relation between the daily experiences, the interpretation of area and the production of their palavramundo (Freire). The interpretation that children have of the world, of life s social relations, of the school environment, that is, of the reality in which they live are instruments for the understanding of the quotidian that surrounds us. My initial surprise concerning school and lack of comprehension of it, were definitely important to unleash my process of inclusion in the group. The less included I felt, the more instigated I was to the possibility of discovering a new method of doing things, in a way that the welcoming could surpass the strangeness. As this research is being composed I reflect on the class room area as a possibility of potential, of subjectivities and at the same time, I am challenged to discover the production.