The problematization of games and childrens play in the education of 0- 6-year-old children: an analysis of exemplary proposals / Problematizando o uso dos jogos e das brincadeiras na educação das crianças de 0 a 6 anos: uma análise de propostas exemplares

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2009

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As strategies for teaching subject matters, games and childrens play have a high place in institutional educational practices. This is especially true for those directed to 0-6-year-old children. Since these strategies in childrens daily activities are of paramount importance, current research aims at problematizing the establishment and the development of modern discourse on the educational role of games and childrens play, their meaning and their possible effects. The historical period under analysis is limited to the sources chosen, or rather, the two volumes of the Revista do Jardim da Infância [Kindergarten Magazine], published between 1896 and 1897, and the three volumes of Referencial Curricular Nacional para a Educação Infantil [Brazilian School Curriculum Guidelines for Childrens Education], published in 1998. Above sources were chosen owing to an acknowledgement both documents have within the context of practices, mainly those involving childrens games and plays, focusing children. A set of documents was thus collected which, according to our hypotheses, would identify discourses and practices that associate the objects under investigation. Since research interpellates the discourses and the documents of a certain point in history, they were perceived as signs of that period, or rather, as concept bearers and not as the depositary of a certain kind of truth. Documentary texts were analyzed with regard to the manner activities for children could be organized and developed through the use of games and play, having in mind the working out of concepts, values and manner of behavior. Analyses showed that, throughout history, the sciences, such as Psychology and Pedagogy, reinforced the idea that games and playfulness were important learning instruments. Current investigation, therefore, shows that current understanding on the educational role of play and games and every practices associated with them need the acknowledgement of their historicity, the strategies of potentialization and the relationship with discourses. Further, the association of the adjective educational linked to play practices did not occur randomly but became a strategy which involved power and knowledge relations which aimed at the rule of child subjects. It interweaved itself and found strength within the context of childhood and the modern institutions posited for childrens education. When practices, linked to play and games for children, are associated with learning, they may limit creativity, avoid destabilizations, construct subjectivities and rule the young subjects. These objects and practices, as social and historical practices, may produce what we are and construct our social and cultural being in a complex and determined way.

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infância games jogos childhood discourse brincadeiras discurso childrens play

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