Participação e significação do espaço da I Bienal do Livro Amazonas pelas crianças visitantes

Abstract

This paper proposes to understand children’ actions at the I Bienal Amazon Book Fair and their dialogues with science oriented by the importance they give to their own reality and not that of any adult observing them. This objective is consistent with the ideas of Child Sociology that children are full-fledged and rightful social actors who are able and know how to tell their own stories. For this, authors such as Sarmento (2007, 1997), Delgado and Müller (2005), and Caraveo (2001), among others, were used as reference. As theoretical support for scientific education Jacobucci (2008), Zancan (2000), and Roitman (2007) were utilized. The results of the observations and semi-structured interviews conducted with the children indicate that the child visitors understood and appreciated the scientific content but they presented this content in compartmentalized subjects present in the books. It was also possible to learn how children participate as social actors, by their own way of referencing reality, which defies the incomplete and transient nature of childhood as well as any dependence on interpretive actions by adults. Keywords: Child Sociology. Non-formal Educational Space. Scientific Education