Abstract:Our objective is to investigate how relationships between science and imagination are discursively constructed within a group of children in the first three years of elementary school. Based on Ethnography in Education, articulated with Science Education, we analyze events that demonstrate how references to the non-school context contribute to the teaching of science in a way articulated with imagination/creation activity. The results demonstrate the occurrence of: a science perspective primarily focused on re… Show more
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