Monotonic childhoods: representations of otherness in research writing

• Main Authors: Denise Marcos Bussoletti, Pedrinho Arcides Guareschi
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa 2011-12-01
• Series: Práxis Educativa
• Subjects: Social representations; Childhoods; Otherness
• Online Access: http://www.revistas2.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/2548/2323

This paper is part of a doctoral thesis entitled “Monotonic childhoods – a rhapsody of hope”. It follows the perspective of a critical psychosocial and cultural study, and aims at discussing the other’s representation in research writing, electing childhood as an allegorical and refl ective place. It takes into consideration, by means of analysis, the drawings and poems of children from the Terezin ghetto during the Second World War. The work is mostly based on Serge Moscovici’s Social Representation Theory, but it is also in constant dialogue with other theories and knowledge fi elds, especially Walter Benjamin’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s contributions. At the end, the paper supports the thesis that conceives poetics as one of the translation axes of childhood cultures.