Abstract

MARTINS, Rita de Cássia  and  GARANHANI, Marynelma Camargo. A organização do espaço na educação infantil: o que contam as crianças?. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.32, pp.37-56. ISSN 1981-416X.

The article presents a research with the goal of understanding the meanings and the senses which children in an Infant Education Municipal Center of Curitiba give to the spaces of the educational institution they attend. For that, the theoretical and methodological references used were: Forneiro (1998), Horn (2004), Carvalho and Rubiano (2007), Faria (2007) and Santos (2008), about the space and the space in the institution of Infant Education; documents which give orientation about the organization of the spaces in the Infant Education Municipal Centers of Curitiba; Demartini (2002), Cerisara (2004), Gobbi (2002, 2009), about researches with children; Lessard-Hébert, Goyett e and Boutin (1990), about the qualitative research. The tools used for data collection were the participative observation, semi-structured interview, commented drawings and monitored visit. For data analysis, the Meaning Focus inspired in the methodology proposed by Aguiar and Ozella (2006) and used by Moro (2009) was used as a theoretical-methodological approach. Supported by Vygostsky’s studies (1991, 2001a, 2001b) about language and thought, this research concluded that the meanings and the senses that children gave to these spaces were built and re-elaborated by them as they talked about them. The analysis of the meaning focuses led to the thinking that ludicity, affectivity, recognition of the social convivence rules, curiosity and imagination can be considered constitutive elements of the childhood, in which children give meanings and senses to the institutional space they attend.

Keywords : Infant Education; Space; Research with Children.

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