A observação fenomenológica como prática pedagógica

compartilhando experiências de olhar para as crianças e seu brincar com as pedras

Abstract

The current text aims to share the results of the investigation carried outin 2019 by the Casa Amarela Study Center about children’s relationship ofwith stones during spontaneous play.The starting point of this exercise is the goethean phenomenological observation, which is the research foundation method used in the anthroposophical knowledge building. Its core is the observer’s experience in life and the pondering that comes with it, creating space for the investigation of human life, growth, exchanges ando bservation enhancement, especially among children. The investigative practices carried out among the educators at the Casa Amarela Study Center aspire to give new meanings totheir perspectives and build differen trelationships, not only with the children, but also with themselves and the world. The educator-researcher needs to tune his/her soul so that he/she is an appropriate instrument to experience the awakening to the subtle, hidden world, which the physical senses are not able to reach. This movement makes it possible to interlace new insights from the children’s point of view and, thus, beable to understand them in their developmental stages. This study fostered the book “Aninhar: a look at children and their play with stones”, published in 2021.