Ideas para cambiar el mundo: imaginarios de niños y niñas sobre su rol como sujetos de transformación social

Abstract

The present research presents an approach to children with the objective of understanding the imaginary that have a group of children of the fourth grade of the IED Almirante Padilla School located in the city of Bogota about their role as subjects of transformation Social. From the theory of Cornelius Catoriadis (1975), the imaginary is an image and constitutes a magma of imaginary significations in which ideas, desires, affections and practices converge in the constructions of the subjects and in the way in that the world is known and constructed. In order to account for the ideas children have about their role as agents of social transformation, this work was based on a qualitative and interpretative methodological approach, which from ethnography as a research technique approaches the contexts of children to naturalize the information you get. An iconographic workshop, a cartography of the ideas and a discussion group were carried out. Information was systematized in search of imaginary significations and instituted institutional imaginaries related to child participation and the role of children as subjects of social transformation. Children have ideas to change the world that reveal a leading role, significantly crossed by the place that adults have in their care and education practices.