Escuta estética/poética na creche : encontros musicais com bebês e crianças pequenas.

Abstract

The study shows possibilities of interacting with babies and young children through a poetic listening of aesthetical interference with music in Nursery School. The research, which has a qualitative and purposeful nature, took place in a nursery class of a private school in Porto Alegre. It focused on a group of 14 children aged one to two. The aim of the study was to arouse language experiences that emerge from sensations, admirations, silences, expressions from autonomous actions and playful interactions through music involving children and their adult teachers. Therefore, it carries on a phenomenological approach of the living experience with babies and young children to ensure the choice of a field to be thought of and not a question to be answered or explained.The study starts from the understanding of a sensitive body as the early source of significance considering that without aesthetics life lacks flavor and without poetics life lacks meaning.The words aesthetics and poetics are closely related to their Greek roots - aisthesis e poiesis - emphasizing the human being primordial capability of feeling himself and the world and indicating the plurality of acceptations that empower being in the world, that is, the everyday life of acting, producing, creating, making. Silence is understood in its poetical potency of exceeded significance, emerging from language based on the experience of the extraordinary and from the value of existence. The listening of musical encounters among babies and young children, based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology in interlocution with Heller, Schaffer, Lino, Tafuri, Malaguzzi, Barbosa, Richter, Meira and Pilotto, Duarte Junior, Kovadloff, Cabanellas, Hoyuelos and Laredo, allows us to assert the inseparability between aesthetics and poetics, silence and music, that is, between feeling and acting in the world, concluding that it is also from the encounter between music and sound objects that adults can arouse autonomous actions in babies and youngchildren in their possibilities of expression, offering them time, spaces, materials, sonorities so that they can be and make of this time a playful experience with sound, silence and movement. Playing an instrument is an experience of thought that emerges from body movement in the world and with the world. Keywords: Babies and young children’s education. Music. Aesthetics. Poetics. Nursery school. Kindergarten.