About listening and some other lost things

Abstract

This article problematizes the place given to listening in pedagogical practices. It draws on the theoretical contributions of Simone Weil on attention, George Petropoulos on adultcentrism and Carlos Lenkensdorf on listening in Tojolabal culture. It presents a pedagogical experience in a public higher education institution in the State of Rio de Janeiro based on the shared reading of two children's literature texts, asking how listening to stories can educate our listening capacity. Based on a third picture book, the text seeks to generate in readers a hospitality for listening in the form of unanswered questions that culminate in the question: “what worlds could be born in listening schools?”.