As escalas das infâncias na cartografia ficcional de Jader Janer e na Geografia da Infância: das insignificâncias às significâncias

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of an investigation on Geography and Literature in the work The Button Collector and the Girl Who Liked Patched Maps by Jader Janer, whose analysis category is scale, and aims to analyze the relationship between the cartography of Geography of Childhood and the cartography present in the fictional text of the cited work from the geographic and cartographic scale in dialogue with the experiential scales of the children. It is a dialogue between the geographer Jader Janer and the writer of children's literature, that is, a dialogue between science and art in the same author, which is only possible because he shares in science and art the same conception of child as another, with its own logics and a non-adult-centric cartography, measured not by metrics, but by the intensity of the phenomenon. This research also analyzes the conceptions of children and childhoods in Brazilian children's literature. This investigation opens a reflection on the Teaching of Geography and School Cartography, since another cartography is being constituted based on the Historical-Cultural Theory with children, and not a cartography for children anymore. The methodology adopted is the case study of two schools in the state network of Rio de Janeiro to answer the following problem: to what extent are geographic and cartographic scales present in the experiential scales of children in the cartography of the Geography of Childhood and in the fictional cartography of Jader Janer so that the child produces a map of feeling? The hypothesis is that there are elements of the cartographic scale and the geographic scale in the experiential scales of these children when making a map of feeling, when their multiscale significances are present in their maps, with the experiential scales projected on paper, learned at school or outside it, but always with the guiding hand. Therefore, we named these scales on the map of children's multiscale cartoinsignificance. Although most maps have different scales, not all were multiscale. It is noteworthy that the most multiscalar maps were the mapsaritas.