O lugar da documentação pedagógica na pesquisa em Educação Ambiental com crianças

Abstract

This article presents a section of a study conducted within an undergraduate degree in Pedagogy, aiming to understand and elucidate the role of narrative as a methodological axis in an action research project in Environmental Education with preschool children. The study highlights the contributions of pedagogical documentation to investigations that seek to listen to, narrate, and interpret children’s experiences. Grounded in a qualitative perspective and guided by a participatory action research approach, the investigation employed narrative analysis as a method for analyzing information, supported by pedagogical documentation, which consists of records such as transcriptions of children’s speech, photographs, and their original productions. The results indicate that the articulated use of narrative analysis and pedagogical documentation as a methodological axis in Environmental Education research with children makes it possible to understand how children construct meanings about nature and about themselves in relation to the environment.