CHILDREN, CORNERS, UNDER AND BEHIND: CHRONICLES OF SPACIAL EXPERIENCES
Keywords:
children, spatial experiences, language, geographical spaceAbstract
This is a work formed by many voices: the authors mentioned, ours and children with whom we live in our research. This is because we believe in an academic work with the humanities that breaks with classical positivism, while breaking with the subjectivism present in many studies, recognizing that we are beings born in a world of language and we forge ourselves in it. Throughout the text, we bring personal memories of our childhoods and the lives of others. Memories of the external world, its colors, sounds and flavors refracted by our experience, our scales. The text is the result of how we look at all these experiences in their relationship with the geographical space, our subject of study. Understanding that there is no spatial experience outside the human verb, we therefore defend the condition of human language as a whole to which we are inserted. For us, what is in the first instance in the child's experience in space is the dimension of imagination and creation. Play, in this perspective, has an intense relationship with the geographical space and with life in society and with society in the lives of children, with their development and humanization processes.