Play and interact in the spaces of the children’s school research on the move: children, earth, earthworks and… hands to the garden

Abstract

We affirm a way of researching with children based on the ‘epistemology of listening’ - an investigative attitude that involves listening, attentive to the complex relationships between listening and understanding. We seek to listen to children in other registers, attentive to their singular saying that places the senses installed in ‘state of edge’ and weave inventive encounters at Creche UFF - locus of the present investigation. We narrate the experience of building the vegetable garden at Creche UFF, collectively lived with children from 02 (two) to 06 (six) years and undergraduate students of the Pedagogy Course-UFF. The research focuses on the events experienced by children and the pedagogical processes invented in the construction of Horta da Creche. The results obtained allow us to understand the act of knowing as an intense experience that mobilizes emotions and desires. We affirm the child's spontaneous curiosity as a potentializer of new knowledge through the exercise of ‘epistemological curiosity’ and we advocate a dialogical and democratic early childhood education.