Learning with children

: experiencing the possibility of weaving communities through the practice of artistic-organic exercises

Abstract

This work was developed at the end of 2019, in which we observed the possibilities of artistic-organic exercises with a group of 30 students from a Municipal Elementary School in the city of Araraquara, São Paulo. Our first concern was in relation to the socialization processes, mobilized through the interactions of children when exercising their various exercises collectively. Our research proposal was not based on unique and definitive answers, on the contrary, on the possibilities that occur in processes that open up to the unexpected. Therefore, the objective of the research was to highlight clues regarding the processes of community formation in violent school environments based on a diversity of artistic-organic exercises, activated by narratives and discussions, manifested through the act of enrolling in a social body. To support the theoretical and methodological aspects of the research, we spoke with the following authors: Rufino (2021, 2023); Freire (1979); Apoema (2020); Rolnik (1993, 2018). The methodological approach proposed a diversity of artistic-organic exercises as a guide for reflective thinking and encounters with others. The (inter)locution with the children took place in 16 meetings lasting three to four hours each. In this process, by following the interactions through narratives and discussions, we identified the elaboration of meanings and their multiple connections, in which the students were able to perceive themselves in the presence of the other, in dialogue movements made up of meanings, knowledge and sensibilities.