This text introduces the Cultural-Historical Psychology Classroom Research Group (GEPSA) that has as goals to study language, discourse, social cognition, culture and inclusion within classrooms. We link Cultural-Historical Psychology and Interactional Ethnography searching for a theorical and methodological coherence to conduct our researches. We present an investigation within a six-child classroom in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. We analyzea literacy event called “What is in the middle of the ocean, heaven, river and sun”. The analysis demonstrates how children bring to school what they know about the words and its concepts. Through school mediation, children can constitute new identities, and new knowledge about themselves and the world.
Cultural-Historical Psychology; GEPSA; children; literacy events
