Estudar é sua mente ir às estrelas: um estudo das compreensões de crianças sobre o processo de aprendizagem escolar

Abstract

This study addresses the understanding of the learning process of children enrolled in the 4th year grade of Elementary School, in a public school, located in a municipality located in the southern region of Brazil.  With ethnographic inspiration, it was intended to understand the meanings that children attributed to school, learning and the actors involved in this process, such as family members and teachers. It is understood, through the Historical-Cultural perspective and the Studies of the Sociology of Childhood, that the child is an active subject in their learning process and has discursive potential about how it happens. From the research, the children showed how the school is a place of meeting, belonging and involvement with the epistemological, socializing and professionalizing dimensions of life; highlighted the challenges of relationships with adults this process presents; and, above all, they denoted the norms of the curriculum to be rethought in the school learning process in the experience of childhood.