O relógio e o vento: conversando com crianças sobre o tempo

Abstract

This dissertation presents the paths of one research that had as objective to put in discussion with children the concept of time. Characterized by several reformulations, it sought to know which meanings children create about time in the process of construction and deconstruction of the concept. The idea for the talks was not to provide a response able to report the many questions involved in this debate, but to share with children the questions to be ask within this dialogue. The meetings were held in the common areas of a condominium located in the west zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, where these children live, and in the online environment, through the social network Facebook. The participants were fifteen children between 8 and 14 years old. As methodology was made the option for the dialogue, provoked from the use of material resources, as images and objects, or immaterial ones, as the elaboration of questions, hypothetical situations and the use of imagination to bring about temporal and spatial shifts. On the text of the dissertation, at first, it discusses the conceptions of childhood from the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and assumptions presented, among others, by Rita Ribes Pereira, Fabiana Beatriz Olarieta, Lev Vygotsky and Solange Jobim e Souza. The questions about time are understood through the theories of Edward Hall, Edward Thompson, Marcos Chiquetto, George Woodcock and also from the philosophers Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Bergson and Walter Benjamin. With regard to discussions about human sciences, research, meeting and methodology are essential theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Rita Ribes Pereira, Nélia Mara Rezende Macedo, Marilia Amorim, Lúcia Rabello de Castro and Walter Benjamin. Finally, help to improve the text Caetano Veloso, Érico Veríssimo, Rita Ribes Pereira, Walter Benjamin and Mikhail Bakhtin