Abstract

SANTOS, Digilaini Machado dos; FORNECK, Kári Lúcia  and  BECKER, Vitória Petter. THE ORGANIZATION OF SPACES AND TIMES IN THE PROMOTION OF CHILD PROTAGONISM. Revista LES [online]. 2025, vol.29, n.59, 5779.  Epub June 13, 2025. ISSN 2526-8449.  https://doi.org/10.26694/rles.v29i59.5779.

This article presents a study that aimed to verify, through the narratives of teachers, whether the organization of spaces and times provide opportunities for babies’ and young children’s experiences for the development of child protagonism. Based on a qualitative nature, this study used an open questionnaire as a research tool, targeted to 32 teachers of Early Childhood Education from the municipal network of a city in the state of Santa Catarina. The data were analyzed in an approximation with discursive textual analysis (ATD), from which four categories of analysis emerged. One of them, “The (trans)formation of spaces and times in learning environments”, we present in this study. The analyzes showed that there is still an adult-centric perception of the process of organizing spaces, routine, and time, demonstrating that this organization has not been favoring child protagonism. It is concluded that it is necessary to overcome adult-centric spaces, routines, and practices that do not invite the child to be the author of their experiences and learning, with the sensitive gaze of the teacher being a fundamental point in this process.

Keywords : Organization of spaces; Time; Routine; Child protagonism..

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