Abstract

SILVA, Elenice de Brito Teixeira  and  NEVES, Vanessa Ferraz Almeida. Logic of inquiry building in a research with babies. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.76, pp.93-122.  Epub Apr 05, 2023. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.23.076.ds04.

How does the ontology of babies as potent and vulnerable social beings impact theoretical-methodological decisions in a research? How do epistemological questions circumscribe the production of a logic that apprehends the relationships between babies and other people, the materiality and cultural-historical contexts? These questions are objects of reflection in this article, built from the research on the processes of constitution of play in a group of babies in Early Childhood Education between 2017 and 2018. The research sought to highlight the cultural genesis of this activity in the group, its concreteness in collective social practices and in the relationships of otherness built through the sharing of narrative and symbolic sources, cultural and care routines at EMEI Tupi in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Based on the foundations of Cultural-Historical Theory and Ethnography in Education, as well as on the dialogues with Childhood and Baby Studies, we seek to give centrality to the actions and languages ​​of babies dialectically situated in relation to social events that have historicity in the group and in the wider culture. Therefore, the contextualized nature of research and the ethical care to always situate and consider people, materiality, discourses, structures, methods, as contexts for what happens, are two premises announced among the guiding principles of research with babies that unfolded in methodological implications.

Keywords : Research with babies; Early Childhood Education; Cultural-Historical Theory; Ethnography in Education.

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