As ciências, o palhaço e a criança: as possibilidades de educabilidade científica do encontro entre a criança e o palhaço

Abstract

This study deals with the possibilities of scientific educability, starting with a meeting between a group of children, students of the 4th year of elementary school, and the Clown Galileo, from a perspective of critical and reflective analysis, that speaks with educator's ideas as Freire and Vygotsky, among others. Thus, the stage of the meeting was at a classroom of a public school, located in a poor neighborhood of a medium-sized city, in the state of Minas Gerais, which had as its backdrop the theme of the levers, approached through a performance which involved a pair of clowns and a device called a “Lift Things's Machine ", which was useful as the object of mediation for children fabricated drawings, associated with the narratives produced from the audiovisual record of activity, composed the corpus of research analysis. Hence, we understand the clown as a space of potentialities, with conditions to integrate art and science’s school knowledge , under the dialogical focus of complementarity in educational action, valuing curiosity, the challenge, thrills and the enchantment. Therefore, to development of this work, we adopt the following methodological procedures: firstly students attended a performance of clowns, that in the end presented a seemingly unsolvable problem. Subsequently, we asked that each child make a drawing representing their response to the problem, and finally, we promoted a circle of conversations in order to try to understand the meanings of the drawings that were produced. All stages of the research were recorded in audio and video and totaled a period of approximately 50 minutes of work. Thereby, at the end of this study, perceived throughout this encounter between children and clowns we draw attention to some possibilities of science education.