Imaginarios sociales sobre la lectura y la oralidad en niños y niñas de grado séptimo

Abstract

The investigation arises from the interest of the researcher and of theoretical enrichment of the subjects taken in the Emphasis on History, Imaginaries and Social Representations of Childhood of the Master's Degree in Childhood and Culture. From the epistemological axes of this emphasis is posed as a problem. What are the social imaginaries that seventh grade boys and girls of the Liceo Nuestra Señora de las Nieves construct about reading and orality during their school experience? Knowing them from the children’s own experience is key to think and understand the childhood and the way it is created within the institutional environment. This research is framed in a qualitative study with an interpretative approach, where the techniques of participant observation, semi-structured interview and literary workshop were used as a means of expression of ideas and feelings. Also, the theory of Cornelius Castoriadis was taken up again, from which social imaginaries were approached as a constant creation of ideas, notions and concepts, which symbolically establish the actions of human beings and vehemently establish social dynamics. In this way, are the children themselves (main actors) who told about their learning experiences about communication processes: Reading and orality which, on the basis of a reflection, made it possible to move towards new constructions of social imaginaries that defined other ways of experiencing them, as fundamental parts of the social being and of the recognition of children as subjects who know the world and build it from the exploration and interaction with others and contexts through oral and written language. For this reason, the children who are part of the seventh grade of the Liceo Nuestra Señora de las Nieves, allowed the researcher, from their stories (oral and written), to form the research corpus as a primary source to unveil the instituted and instituting imaginaries that they have about reading and orality.