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LITERACY AND PLAY IN SOCIALIZATION PROCESSES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: PLAYING DIFFERENTLY

In this paper we aim to analyze the meanings of reading, writing and playing for children on a daily basis in early childhood education in a public school in Belo Horizonte in Brazil. This research is based on discussions about the role of literacy in early childhood education that have instensified with the establishment of nine years of compulsory elementary education (federal laws n. 11.114/2005 and n. 11.274/2006 and constitutional amendment n. 59/2009). Our analysis is part of a broader research, developed from and based on an interactional ethnography approach (Green; Dixon; Zarlick, 2005Green, J.; Dixon, C.; Zaharlick, A. A etnografia como uma lógica de investigação. Educação em Revista, Belo Horizonte: Programa de Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, n. 42, p. 13-79, dez. 2005.), an interpretative approach to the sociology of childhood (Corsaro, 2005______. The sociology of childhood. 2. ed. London: Sage Publications, 2005.) and a social literacy perspective (Castanheira; Green; Dixon, 2007______; Crawford, T.; Dixon, C.; Green, J. Interactional ethnography: an approach to studying the social construction of literate practices. Linguistics and Education, Nashville: Elsevier, v. 11, n. 4, p. 353-400, 2001.; Soares, 1999Soares, M. Letramento: um tema em três gêneros. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 1999.; Street, 1984Street, B. Literacy in theory and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.). Such analysis allows us to demonstrate the possibility of integration between literacy and play in early childhood education.

play; literacy; early childhood education; interactional ethnography


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