As investigações gráficas e a aprendizagem das crianças: o que os desenhos podem nos revelar?

Abstract

The present research entitled “Graphic investigations and children's learning: what can drawings reveal to us?”, presents the result of a graphic qualification project carried out with children aged six and seven. This research aims to demonstrate the learning and development of children's graphics through the representation of two objects in a proposal with four colorless drawings and four colored drawings. The methodology chosen was action research, carried out with twenty-two children from a first year class of Elementary School in a public school in the in Rio Grande do Sul' countryside. The class was chosen because it is in which the researcher works, because according to Coelho (2019), in action research, the researcher and the participants get involved in the situation in order to participate and collaborate. The descriptions of the stages of the investigative process that gave rise to this research are separated into six sections that address the development of the research, teaching learning and an interview with the children who participated in this proposal. It is also important to highlight that this research focuses on children, so strategies were developed to make them active subjects in the construction of this work. Developing and following the steps of this graphic investigation process makes us understand and reflect that children express their feelings during this act, but also represent symbols that are engraved in their memory, and therefore, some drawings appear stereotyped . It is evident that the proposals on drawings must be prepared with intention and elaborated in order to increase the children's graphic repertoire so that they can build more real and meaningful representations, because the drawings are moments of paramount importance and rich possibilities for the subjects to demonstrate their own way to see the world, their imagination, creativity and expression.