The dialogic research as playful act of knowing

ABSTRACT

By means of this study, essential issues related to the processes iherent in the act of knowing, especially, that are conected to the informational learning, in the view of the relationship between devices and appropriation of information. The concepts of scholarly research were approched, a recognized pedagogical practice that provides students with active participation in the teaching-learning processes in formal and non-formal educational settings and, playful, taken as a concept-operatively to the dynamic analysis and research processes conducted by young people in dialogic informational device - the (knowledge station) Estação do Conhecimento Einstein in Paraisópolis, São Paulo. It is an exploratory, qualitative and ethnographic type. This work takes place inside of the field of Infoeducation, under the assertion of the cultural leadership - a subject that keeps affirmative, critical and creative attitudes with the signs-, and has showed that the dialogic research, characterized as negotiated practice and spontaneously performed by children and teenagers as part of the Estação do Conhecimento, presents aspects that can characterize a new approach of this practice, not only as a way to encourage groups in their school processes, but also to stimulate young people to build value and to realize the links with the act of knowing, with knowledge, with the culture. The practice of research, as playful act of knowing, proved essential category of cultural appropriation.

Keywords:
Scholarly research; Playful; Dialogic informational device; Dialogic informational order; Infoeducation