LEARNING RHYTHMIZED BY CHILDREN: Drumming at Olho do Tempo Living School in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Keywords:
children, learning, drumming, intra- and intergenerational relations, João PessoaAbstract
This study analyses the relationships of childhood learning in the educational context of
the Olho do Tempo Living School, a civil society organization of public interest located in a rural area of
João Pessoa in the Brazilian state of Paraíba, where children engage in the practice of drumming as a
pedagogical proposal. We weave together interdisciplinary theories on early childhood learning and
learning through practice. From a patchwork based on participant observation of the children’s actions
and perceptions, we address the following categories that both were felt and emerged in the fieldwork:
participation, autonomy, development and growth in/with the body. We conclude that the actions
understood by the children as “learning on one’s own” and “holding one’s own” are entangled with
conflicting ties (re)born in intra- and intergenerational relations and in relations with things (mainly the
instruments) in the environment. It is through these relations that the children deconstruct the adultcentric interpretation of the teaching-learning relationship.
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