Señor miedo: relatos de niños y niñas de 5 a 8 años del colegio Álvaro Gómez Hurtado

Abstract

This research was developed from a qualitative methodology that had as its main input the analysis of the stories provided by boys and girls from 5 to 8 years old, from the Álvaro Gómez Hurtado School, based on their life experiences facing fear. The stories were collected during the activities and interviews that took place in the different group workshops carried out with participants; these stories were recorded, transcribed and segmented into statements. Subsequently, for the analysis, the following elements were reviewed: characters, places, representations, descriptions, and figurative languages, which are part of the stories and which are related to each other. Throughout this research, a conception of fear is evidenced as a social and cultural construction that transcends the socio-affective dimension, which is established in the practices and discourses of the subjects. Therefore, boys and girls as subjects of learning and knowledge are part of a culture that they manage to transform. Boys and girls are presented here as main characters who create, resignify and generate important structural changes in the contexts they inhabit. In the same way, the diversity of experiences that drive the desire to tell and represent their fears through the story is recognized.