Resumen

CASTILLO, Máyuri. WHAT IS THINKING FOR CHILDREN?. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2004, vol.19, n.2, pp.241-259. ISSN 1316-0087.

The definition of thinking has been the subject of different researches. This work approaches such notion through the application of the clinical method by Jean Piaget, using as technique a questionnaire that asks about it in children between the ages of 8 to 11 years approximately. The answers were studied across the five categories of the method: not caring, fabling, suggested believes, foolish believes and spontaneous believes. The results told us that when a child arrives to his/her eleventh year seems to move in two levels: the external and the internal. In this stage the child creates, reasons and looks for the logic of his/her thinking when expressing linguistically -overcoming yes and no- and with it, examines, imagines, creates, and concentrates. We must be aware; however, that sometimes it is difficult to differentiate one category of answers from others, which in turn limits the research. It can be said that thinking is for children like an inner voice in their heads that can be felt better after closing the eyes and tapping of the ears.

Palabras clave : thinking; children.