Abstract

DORNELLES, Leni Vieira. Old-bodied Puppets: what children say about ageing. Educ. Real. [online]. 2015, vol.40, n.1, pp.173-190. ISSN 0100-3143.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-623645671.

The text describes a way to do research with children and to learn what they understand by being elderly. I study here a group of children from a public school in Porto Alegre making use of five puppets that represent old-bodied men and women. I ground the research in post-critical assumptions, in the sociology of childhood and in studies about ageing. I observe how children when playing with the bodies of elderly-puppets display their understanding about an ageing body. I deal with the effect of playing with elderly-bodies in the education of children and with the extent to which this kind of body is not present in their toys and plays.

Keywords : Puppets; Children; Ageing; Body; Research with Children.

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