This paper derives from a pilot study on classroom attention undertaken with first grade children. The objective was to analyze some particularities of the relationships that were established and that may reveal propitious towards a form of attention characteristically more inventive and inquisitive. The study suggested that building an environment of dialogical communication favors the student's attentive capacity. In this environment, students are called upon to experience attention in learning which is different from the habitual manner that they are used to in receiving information. This is due, mainly, to the capacity of the teacher in giving heed to a moment of rupture from the attentive focus and keeping oneself open-minded for the unexpected.
learning; attention; recognition