Perspectivas e olhares acerca da morte e do luto na educação de crianças

Abstract

This study is about the elaborations of mourning, death and dying inherent to the training process aimed at the training of teachers and/or education professionals, seeks connection and support in other training movements already constituted in other areas of training and/or professional performance, such as the health areas, which dealt/deal with this perspective as a constitutive process of their performance/education. Through qualitative, exploratory research, this search was carried out in the electronic database of Scielo, in the time frame of the first two decades of the XXI century. Methodologically, we carried out a study of the “state of knowledge” type, which, according to Ferreira (2002), is characterized by researching bibliographic studies that have the challenge of mapping and discussing academic production in different fields. The theoretical support of this study is particularly anchored in Kovács (1992) and Torres (1979), among others. The analysis and interpretation of the results of this study were supported by the guidance of Content Analysis, summarized by Trivinõs (1987). As a result of this search, we cataloged 23 (twenty-three) articles, anchored in the search expressions: teacher education; death and child and mourning. As a result, it is possible to highlight that, even so, there is a silencing regarding the discussion, both on the part of professionals who work directly on issues related to death, losses and grief, as well as those who are indirectly affected and/or deal with issues relating to the discussion. Given that this study sought to identify the participation and involvement of education professionals, it is because we also sought the presence of children in studies related to the elaboration of this reality. We highlight a restriction of these, in this circumstance of life. It is worth noting that death, loss and grief are difficult issues to be dealt with, particularly with children, and if society refuses to talk about death and its representations, this issue also has repercussions in the educational field.