O dia do brinquedo na escola de educação infantil: retratos da cultura lúdica infantil na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss children's play culture in contemporary times, seeking to answer the following question: how do children appropriate culture and reconstruct it using the toys they have? To this end, observations were made of the toys that children aged between 2 and 6 bring to the Early Childhood Education institution on the day known as “Toy Day”. In this sense, the work has the specific objectives of understanding how social relations provide subsidies for play culture today, as well as understanding how digital media influence play culture and children's toys, analyzing how toys have been influenced by consumer industries and, finally, identifying the toys that boys and girls take to school on toy day. The work was based on the understanding that play is inherent to childhood and that it is through play and contact with other subjects that children appropriate culture, becoming protagonists in its reconstruction. We also highlighted the importance of toys and how they have changed over time due to advances in the consumer industry and the media, and how this is reflected in the toys that children play with and take to school. The results showed that the toys brought by the children are strongly influenced by the media and that during play there are divisions between boys and girls.