How do children think about, represent, and territorialize the school? Reflections based on the narratives of children from a school in Brazlândia/DF
Children, Epistemic Protagonism, Class School, Childhood Territories, Rural EducationThis research aims to understand how children attending a Classe School, located in Brazlândia, in the Distrito Federal (DF), express their thoughts and perceptions about the school institution. The methodology used is Jacques Gauthier's Sociopoetics (2012), a cooperative and collective research method focused on the decolonization of research and knowledge. Thus, from a decolonial approach in education, the aim is to understand: what do the children think about the school and how do they represent their perceptions of it? The research contributes to valuing and giving visibility to the protagonism of children in the school environment, as active subjects who construct their own perceptions and worldviews (Lopes, 2006; Noguera, 2019). From this epistemic protagonism, children offer valuable perspectives for the development of analyses about the school as a central territoriality of childhood, where an important part of their educational experiences and lives takes place.