Orientador: Ana Lucia Goulart de Faria / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T19:49:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dias_LaraSimone_M.pdf: 12417644 bytes, checksum: de28975f800781d847cbb98c4452f6c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A presente pesquisa elege o brincar como recorte empírico no apontamento das relações adulto-criança dentro de uma creche pública e de uma creche privada do município de Campinas. Buscando contribuir para a desconstrução de uma categoria unitária de criança, abstrata e universal, é que se procede à investigação de duas creches de naturezas distintas como forma de delinear contextos sócio-culturais diferentes. Através da análise das brincadeiras nestas instituições, pretende-se desvelar as expectativas e os valores atribuídos à educação infantil em realidades heterogêneas, favorecendo a compreensão das infâncias brasileiras em suas construções sociais. Parte-se do pressuposto de que as crianças entendidas como atrizes e atores sociais - vivenciam realidades distintas e constroem, não uma infância única, mas infâncias no plural. A análise dos dados busca estabelecer uma interface, sobretudo entre a Pedagogia e as Ciências Sociais, através de autores que, sob a ótica do materialismo histórico, compreendem o ser humano tanto como produtor de história quanto como produto histórico-social, abordando-o a partir de suas vinculações sociais. Para tratar das peculiaridades da creche pública e da creche privada, este estudo destaca três aspectos principais: os objetivos com os quais são disponibilizadas as condições para as crianças brincarem, o tratamento do corpo em ambas as instituições pesquisadas e sua relação com o brincar; os elementos presentes nas brincadeiras das crianças, dessas diferentes instituições, que se apresentam como insígnias de classe. As conclusões desta pesquisa revelam uma "iniciação" das crianças que freqüentam as creches observadas para o modelo capitalista de produção, além de um aprendizado precoce de suas posições sociais para a vida adulta / Abstract: The present study focuses on the way young children play in an empirical approach of the adult-children relationship inside a public and a private day-care center in Campinas, São Paulo. Trying to contribute to the deconstruction of the unitary concept of child, abstract and universal, we concentrate on a study of two day-care centers of diverse nature - as a way of defining different social and cultural contexts. By ana1ysing 0-3 year-old children's play inside these institutions, we aim at disc1osing the expectations and the values prevalent in early childhood education in different realities, facilitating the understanding of Brazilian childhood in their social construction. We start from the hypothesis that children - here understood as social actors and agents of history - face different realities in which construct not an unifonn childhood, but a plural one. The data ana1ysis try to define an interface particularly between Pedagogy and Social Sciences, through the historical materialism, which considers human beings as producer of History, ana1ysing them in their social relationships. To deal with the particularities of public and private day care centers, the present paper points out three main aspects - considering the diversion between the adults and the children view m play: what are Lthe teacher's objectives in providing conditions for the children to play; the treatrnent of the body in both institutions, and its relations with the conditions to play offered; the characteristics present in children's play representing different social layers. The conc1usions of the present research reveal a children's precocious training in the day care centers based on the capitalist society, besides the learning of their social positions / Mestrado / Educação, Sociedade e Cultura / Mestre em Educação

The study is aimed at understanding the life experiences of children living in childcare institutions and to gain insight into what impact these experiences have in their lives and everyday functioning. I also anticipate that findings of the study will make a contribution in the Department of Health and Social Development, social workers, childcare institutions and other stakeholders who work with children in order to plan and implement programs that will enhance the children’s lives. The research project will be qualitative in nature with the use of the interpretivist approach and the stigmatisation theory as its theoretical background. The study revealed that children in childcare institutions view their environment as normal besides the absence of their parents, there were mixed feelings however about whether they find it as pleasant or unpleasant. One thing that stood out and was positive for them being in a childcare institution was that they have access to privileges which they would not have access to if they were living with their families. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

The goal of this diploma thesis is to analyse public policies of the Czech republic and Germany which are focused on work-life balance of families with children under three years of age. In its theoretical part the diploma thesis offers description of how current changes in our society affects work-life balance, gender equality, women and their aspirations, desicion- making of families concerning their preproduction plans and fertility itself. As next this thesis brings explanation of relationship between different public policy designs and their affects on harmonization of both life spheres, gender equality and free choice of life strategy. In the anylitical part the diploma theses analyses concrete public policy instruments of both chosen countries, compares them with each other using predefined categories and offers analysis performed in the framework of familialism concept formulated by Sigrid Leitner. Finally, in the chapter "Discussion and summary of recommendation" the diploma thesis offers suggestions for modification of some concrete regulations in the Czech republic inspired by chosen regulations that are currently used in Germany and that are considered as instruments with potential to positively influent harmonization of both life spheres, gender equality and free choice of life strategy.