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Children’s Narratives in Podcasts

Abstract

This article presents partial results of a research that discusses the production of a podcast by a group of young children from a public institution of early childhood education. The research brings together the narrative fields, in a Benjaminian vision of experience exchange, digital technologies of podcast production and early childhood education. The methodology used was qualitative and experimental research, of narrative nature, from which it was proposed to collect children’s storytelling, produce them in podcasts and collectivize these productions in online platforms. The data collection happened through the observation of the participants, registration in a field diary and recordings of conversation circles and tellings in podcast format. The material collected was interpreted according to the fragmentary hermeneutics of Walter Benjamin. Fundamented in this author, the researchers take the child as a producer of narratives of communicable experiences, whose origin lies in the dialectical tension between the individual microcosm and the social macrocosm. The initial results indicate that the podcast production by children in early education amplifies the narrative space and becomes an important means of giving voice to their experiences.