“Mi escuela, mi espacio”Estudio sobre la participación infantil en losespacios escolares con estrategias audiovisuales

Resumen

Listening to the voices of boys and girls and making them participate in everything that concernsthem is a fundamental right of childhood that is rarely recognized and respected by the adult gaze by devaluingits multiple languages. Given this, the school is characterized as one of the favorite scenarios to advance inthe pedagogy of listening, involving children in everything that affects them. This research exposes the mainresults of a case study that aims to collect the most intimate and unique vision of 4-year-old students in orderto describe, analyze and interpret how they perceive the spaces of their school based on the conceptions, theuse and occupation in them from an approach of active participation of children. Under a qualitative researchmodel, the work uses audiovisual techniques such as photovoice, drawings, and conversations to stimulate di-alogue with schoolchildren, being these co-investigators of the study. The results expose the need for divergentthinking, pointing out their desire for activities that offer manipulation and exploration from alternative playspaces with open materials in contrast to the reduction of directed activities with static spaces.