ERA UMA VEZ... A IMPORTÂNCIA DOS CONTOS NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: UM LEVANTAMENTO DA LITERATURA

Abstract

Development is a process temporally organized in a complex way and, at each step, new specifically human characteristics emerge, among these, we can quote the imagination. This superior psychological function, according to L. S. Vygotsky, is the basis of creative activity, and manifests itself in the early years of child development. The imagination provides, through elements from reality, the creative re-elaboration of experiences, that is only possible through the accumulation of qualitatively significant experiences. Vygotsky defends art as one of the ways to access the experience accumulated by humanity historically, and highlights the importance of the presence of the most diverse artistic manifestations during the child's development process. By expanding your experiences, we have laid a solid foundation for your creative activity, and as a possibility for this expansion, the child's contact with the most diverse artistic manifestations stands out, such as children's tales, which are considered a cultural product of humanity. To the author, the tales must be inserted from the child's initial formation, that is, in Early Childhood Education. Consequently, this work is characterized as a theoretical study, based on Historical-Cultural Psychology, more specifically on the assumptions of L. S. Vygotsky and contemporary authors. Seeks to investigate, through a bibliographic survey in national scientific databases, if and how Children's Tales are being used to promote development in Early Childhood Education. For that, scientific productions of the last ten years were analyzed, with the aim of identifying studies that encompassed the use of children's tales in promoting development. The results of the survey carried out in these databases allowed us to conclude that the short stories are being used in pedagogical practices in early childhood education, however, it was noticed that the training of school actors who use these artistic resources in their practices needs a continuous theoretical-methodological deepening. The short stories proved to be an important tool to promote the development of psychological processes, as long as used in intentional practices, planned in order to know the context in which they will be worked, the resources available in the institution, the resources available at the institution, how and why they will be used. The findings indicated the possibility of using other resources simultaneously with counting, in addition to the need to rescue other versions or stories different from traditional tales. In addition to its role in child development, short stories can be a powerful instrument for interventions with educators and for the promotion of adult human development.