A construção do saber na educação infantil: uma leitura temático-figurativa do conceito de brincar em creches municipais de Campina Grande-PB

Abstract

This study aimed to raise the concept of playing for teachers, students and parents of Municipal nurseries in Campina Grande/PB. To achieve that objective, we did a reading thematic-figurative concept of play, classifying them as to how to be modal (foundational each subject) cultural (specific to each nursery) and universal (present throughout the universe of research examined consisting of four nurseries). The theory was the chosen proposal greimasian semiotics, focusing on the level of discoursivization, in particular, the relationship thematic-figurative texts in this interview. The corpus collection occurred at the end of the year 2011, through interviews with eight teachers, sixteen students and eight parents. The results showed that the play is a teaching resource used in all kindergartens and has defined spaces that are the classroom and the courtyard and can be free, at the initiative of the children and targeted, when the teacher intervenes in the fun or just provides the conditions for them to happen. Also the lack of understanding of the needs of children playing in kindergarten and consequently experiences that promote their development, generates the production of repetitive play and disciplining, wasting the opportunity to challenge the children to new knowledge. Based on the speeches analyzed, we conclude that the play is based much of children's learning, both in the socializing aspects, as also cultural and affective. But for their potential value is recognized, some conditions must be satisfied. These include adults sensitive, formed on the need of children playing, an Educational System involved in a careful institutional organization that supports the conditions of initial and continuing education, planning and evaluation of the moments of play; teachers to ensure the right of children to play, committed to the idea that play is an essential activity in their integral development. For that, nurseries need to understand how it should be played the role of proposer, mediator and observer of the activities of the students fun, moreover, the teacher needs to unite the liking for research to educational practice.