Narrating through children’s images: ways of living with stories in contemporary times

Abstract

The article brings the results of a Doctoral research which aimed at investigating the children’s relation with narratives in contemporary times. The study was based on the Latin-American Cultural Studies that recognize “cultural” in the hybrid perspective (CanClini, 2003). The investigation was carried out in three schools, a cultural center and a blog. The study was developed through a qualitative research with an ethnographic approach by developing workshops and interviewing the participant children and the children who produced a blog. The findings of the research show the recurrent relation of children with images, what revealed how children’s reading is hybrid and mixes different languages integrating oral, written and visual languages in their formation as readers.

Keywords

• Child, Reader’s development process, Narrative, Image.