As relações entre crianças, adultos e brincadeiras na creche da CMEI – vó Tuta Pereira, Caldas Novas/GO.

Abstract

This master's dissertation addresses the teaching practices of nursery schoolteachers, considering their relevance to understanding the playful behavior of 3-year-old and 11 month-old children in Maternal II at the Vó Tuta Pereira Municipal Early Childhood Education Center, located in Caldas Novas, Goiás. The initial objective was to understand the meanings that teachers gave to play through the playful pedagogical proposals they shared with children. To this end, as a qualitative research study, in addition to reading theoretical references, legal documents that regulate early childhood education in Brazil, and study discussions, the initial methodological approach involved observations of some activities proposed to children by three permanent teachers who work with children in Maternal II, as well as the CMEI coordinator, which were recorded in a field diary. As this observation progressed and the study deepened, the understanding of play changed. Then, at a later stage, the teachers answered a semi-structured questionnaire and based on their answers, interviews were conducted with each of them, addressing not only the content of the questions but also topics related to play. During the research process, the trajectory changed based on the individual experience of the researcher, who is also a nursery schoolteacher, taking on the character of auto-narrative research, in which the teacher's own actions were reflected through detailed reports. As considerations in progress, the research points out that teaching engaged with playful actions can be constantly created and reinvented to provide other discoveries and transform into different forms of play. By engaging in playful games, children and adults impact each other's lives and share the joy of existence. Being human also involves being playful.