<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<journal-id>2176-6681</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Brasileira de Estudos Pedagógicos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[R. Bras. Est. Pedag.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2176-6681</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2176-66812009000300011</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="pt"><![CDATA[Educação infantil no Brasil e no Japão: acelerar o ensino ou preservar o brincar?]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Kishimoto]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Tizuko Morchida]]></given-names>
</name>
</contrib>
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<aff id="A11">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidade de São Paulo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2009</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2009</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>90</volume>
<numero>225</numero>
<fpage>449</fpage>
<lpage>467</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://educa.fcc.org.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2176-66812009000300011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://educa.fcc.org.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2176-66812009000300011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://educa.fcc.org.br/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2176-66812009000300011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="pt"><p><![CDATA[O estudo focaliza a educação infantil no Brasil e no Japão para verificar se prevalece o ensino ou o brincar. Investiga também as razões da diminuição do número de crianças nas escolas infantis em 2006. A apropriação da pedagogia froebeliana é o ponto comum nos primeiros jardins de infância: o Japão adota as brincadeiras livres para desenvolver a cultura lúdica, e o Brasil, as atividades dirigidas com o uso de jogos pedagógicos. A diminuição do número de crianças nas escolas infantis, no ano de 2006, tem causas distintas: no Japão é fruto do impacto do baixo nível demográfico, e no Brasil, da transferência das crianças de seis anos para o ensino fundamental.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[The study focus on the nursery education in Brazil and Japan in order to verify if it focus on teaching or playing .It investigates also the reasons for the decrease in the number of children enrolled in schools in the year of 2006. The froebelian education is the first common point: Japan’s kindergartens adopt free playing games to develop the culture of amusement, and Brazil in its turn provides orientated activities with pedagogical toys. The decrease of registered children in schools in 2006 has distinct reasons: in Japan it is due to the impact of the falling birthrate, and in the case of Brazil, children at six years old were placed in the compulsory educational system.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Ensinar]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Educação Infantil]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Atividade Lúdica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="pt"><![CDATA[Jardins de Infância]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Teaching]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Childhood Education]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ludic Activity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Preprimary Schools]]></kwd>
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</front><body><![CDATA[  <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <h2>Educa&ccedil;&atilde;o  infantil no Brasil e no Jap&atilde;o: acelerar o ensino ou preservar o brincar?</h2> <h3>Preprimary education in Brazil and Japan: accelerate  teaching or preserve playing?</h3>     <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4>Tizuko  Morchida Kishimoto</h4> </font>      ]]></body>
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