Imagination and Concepts Formation: A study about Lev Vygotskys Contributions to Education

• Grant number: 21/12055-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2022
• End date: December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Human Development Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka
• Grantee: Beatriz Ignatios Dias da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project seeks to understand the process of conceptual elaboration of children - more specifically, in children at the transistion age between childhold and adolescence - taking into consideration the relations between imagination and concept formation, such as brought upon by Vygotsky. Starting from field experience in an internship and a preliminary study about the subject, questions arise around the interrelations between the processes mentioned above, which integrate a complex functional dynamic. For this end, it is intended to analyze, from a historical-cultural point of view, what there is to say about these questions in a framework that yearns to encompass both a theorical foundation and a field research for praxis and observation.