Banca de DEFESA: MONALYSA THEMISTOCLES DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MONALYSA THEMISTOCLES DA SILVA
DATA : 31/08/2018
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: Auditório 01 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
TÍTULO:

Em construção

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Children; Child Education; Writing; Experiences; Child Significations

PÁGINAS: 144
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Educação
RESUMO:

This research focused on analyzing experiences children had with writing in the context
of Child Education and the senses attributed by them to this language mode. The study
took the following premises as guidance: a) Children are concrete beings, capable to
learn and develop themselves, as long as the necessary means for experimentation,
exploration and appropriation of the surrounding world/culture are made available by
the sociocultural environment, so they can recreate it and produce proprietary and
singular significations; b) Child Education is the initial stage for Basic Education,
aiming to promote a child’s integral development, including symbolic and linguistic
capacities; c) Writing is both a language and a cultural practice present at society and in
the lives of children, consisting in the object of their (inter)active discoveries; d) It is
necessary to incorporate, in both discussions and practices, the ways that children
understand writing – from their experiences and mediations made available. The study
assumed, as methodological contributions, principals of the qualitative approach, L. V.
Vygostky’s propositions for historical-cultural approach and M. Bakhtin’s dialogism for
researches on human-social processes, and still, guidance on child research. The
investigation involved the following methodological procedures: semi-participative
observations, individual and collective semi-structured interviews and documental
analysis. The study was located in a publically funded Municipal Center for Child
Education in Natal-RN. Its participant subjects were a group of 21 children aged five to
six years, through 2017 and the professionals responsible for the group – the teacher and
the facility’s coordinator. Data analysis, performed by crisscrossing the records
produced with the theoretical-methodological support, enabled us to state that the
experiences lived by children in the exploration of producing spontaneous writings,
such as preconized by the official guidance for this stage, are characterized by
restrictions and lack of context. The observed practices submit the children to repetitive
and reductionist activities of copying names and identifying letters, not considering
writing as a language and cultural practice, as well as the possibilities of child
authoring. Children, by crisscrossing their school and extracurricular experiences with
writing, reveal multiple meanings to this language. To them, writing is: 1) To draw; 2)
To use instruments to write; 3) To create letters/alphabet; 4) To make names; 5) To
make school related choirs; 6) To study/know/learn/become more intelligent; 7) To do
“adult stuff”; 8) To do something one does for someone else; 9) Something that is lived
outside school boundaries. These significations expressed by children reveal both,
restriction and fragility in their comprehension of such language, its symbolical nature
and social function, as well as, on the other hand, their capacity to recreate and produce
culture, broadening their experience with imagination, producing meaning that recreate
the moment. Our study points to the necessity that children need to be, in school,
introduced to written culture in a meaningful way, that it needs to be incorporated to
their real experiences, respecting the specificities of Child Education as an educational
stage, through a method that considers interactions and playtime as central points of the
practices, implying a pertinent teacher training for those that act in this stage.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 6347805 - DENISE MARIA DE CARVALHO LOPES
Externo à Instituição - ELAINE LUCIANA SOBRAL DANTAS - UFERSA
Externo à Instituição - GIOVANA CARLA CARDOSO AMORIM - UERN
Externo ao Programa - 2453560 - MARIA CRISTINA LEANDRO DE PAIVA
Interno - 1672888 - MARIANGELA MOMO