Bonecos com Corpos-Velhos: o que dizem as crianças sobre envelhecimento

Abstract

ABSTRACT -Old-bodied Puppets: what children say about ageing. The text describes a way to do research with children and to learn what they understand by being elderly. I study here a group of children from a public school in Porto Alegre making use of five puppets that represent old-bodied men and women. I ground the research in post-critical assumptions, in the sociology of childhood and in studies about ageing. I observe how children when playing with the bodies of elderly-puppets display their understandin…