Colloquium Humanarum (Mar 2016)

ESCOLA, FAMÍLIA, INFÂNCIA E FANTASIA: CRIANÇAS E ADULTOS CONSTRUINDO VÍNCULOS DE CONFIANÇA

  • Tony Aparecido Moreira,
  • Denise Watanabe,
  • José Milton de Lima,
  • Márcia Regina Canhoto de Lima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5747/ch.2016.v13.n1.h238
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 11 – 28

Abstract

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This research arose from the need to increase knowledge about the child's imagination by teachers, parents and guardians, as well as the rapprochement between these adults and children. The study was developed in two childhood education institutions in western São Paulo in an investigation into the fantasy of children. The research aimed to build bonds of trust between adults and children investigated through the development of fantasy games and outreach activities among the subjects. The research-action was the methodology used, as a way to ensure the development of games and fantasy games, as well as the implementation of a process of own practice research for qualification of the pedagogical approach of the teachers and the relationship of parents and caregivers with children. The sociology of childhood and studies of Paul L. Harris were the main theoretical framework of this research, in view of the child's concept as a social subject of separate status and the imagination as a primary human language, developed over all human life . Data were collected through close monitoring of children from Early 11 Colloquium Humanarum, Presidente Prudente, v. 13, n. 1, p.11-28, jan/mar 2016. DOI: 10.5747/ch.2016.v13.n1.h238 Childhood classes of both institutions investigated, use recorders, imaging camera and video, interviews and field diaries. Identified above all there was the qualification of relations between adults and children participating and that this approach was beneficial for all subjects. We hope to contribute with other studies and convince the relevance of the topic.

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