Educação emocional - enlaces na infância : estudo em uma escola de educação infantil do município de Mato Leitão - RS.

Abstract

Development care and support for children gradually found space and importance. Motivated mainly by the insertion of women in the job market, institutions have been historically built for such stimulation. Daycare centers emerged as a space for childcare, but without major concerns about its development, a perspective that changed with the arrival of the Child and Adolescent Statute; by the National Guidelines and Basis Law, and more recently by the National Common Curricular Base, which guarantee promotion possibilities for child development in Early Childhood School Centers. Thinking specifically to one of these forms of development, the present research aimed to investigate emotional education of children at a kindergarten that uses pedagogical practices of creative/imaginative expressions, focusing especially on the Municipal School of Early Childhood Education (EMEI) Mato Leitão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. For this purpose, references were sought to help understand the process of emotional education and its relationship to the constructs of creativity and imagination, with child education as its core theme. The study was approached by the multiple case methodologies, configuring it as a qualitative research. Data collection was carried through proposed activities, on which the children participated by semi-structured interviews and a children’s story as emotional education investigation devices. Subsequently, the interviews went through a qualitative content analysis for the comprehension and grouping of similar data. Faced by this, it was observed that investigated children showed expressive emotional perception, according to the research hypothesis, manifesting their emotions by facial expressions and behavioural reactions. Thus, supported by the collected data and consulted literature, it is assumed that imagination and creativity in the context of early childhood education may be related to emotional education, affecting children’s living ease and emotional demonstration.