A pesquisa com crianças: pimenta no jardim dos outros

We aim to work with discourse analysis as a way of understanding of what researchers can learn from the play with children at school. The theoretical and methodological framework are made of the contributions of socio-historical psychology, sociology of childhood and discourse analysis authors as Bakhtin (Volochínov) (2006) and Maingueneau (2005, 2010). The enunciative scene in analysis is an interaction that occurs in a playful setting. It was produced as part of an ethnographic study of children in a school of early childhood education and from it we can analyze the asymmetric nature of the relationship researcher / researched. We conclude that, in this episode, research with children appears as an exercise that requires the researcher special attention to alterity in relationship.