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Orientador: Célia Maria Guimarães / Banca: Renata Junqueira de Souza / Banca: Áurea Maria Paes Leme Goulart / Resumo: O presente trabalho, vinculado à linha de pesquisa 'Infância e Educação', do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da FCT/UNESP, apresenta uma pesquisa-intervenção desenvolvida no ano de 2009, em um Centro de Convivência Infantil da UNESP, com um grupo de crianças de três a quatro anos de idade e teve como objetivos investigar se os contos de fadas contribuem para o uso dos elementos da narrativa pelas crianças de três a quatro anos de idade, e se o trabalho intencional com tais instrumentos favorece a construção das narrativas infantis. Essa pesquisa originou-se da inquietação perante a tendência de os contos de Fadas que, por não serem vistos como prática que pode auxiliar no processo de construção de narrativas infantis, não serem trabalhados intencionalmente, não serem privilegiados tempo e espaço para a narrativa oral das crianças. Para realização da pesquisa foram necessários dois momentos: o primeiro chamado de "Fase da observação", realizado com a premissa de conhecer o grupo analisado e assim ser aceito por ele, visando... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This research, related to the "Childhood and Education" investigation group, was developed in the Post-Graduation Program in Education of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - UNESP. It describes an interventional-research which was performed in 2009 and involved a group of three/four-year-old children enrolled in the university Day Care. The investigation aimed to reinforce, among other important proposals, the role of children education pedagogical job in enhancing children's oral narrative. Its starting point was the perception that fairy tales are neither intentionally used nor conceived as a tool in order to help children in their narrative construction process. Two steps were needed to develop the research: the first one, the observation stage, had the purpose of making the researcher familiar to the group as well as being accepted by them so the interactive moments could be observed as a support to the intervention itself. This second stage included seven meetings that always started with story telling, preceded by some explanation about the authors, and followed by the conversation time: a discussion concerning the tale by... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Dans la vie sociale, les besoins sont regardés comme un préalable nécessaire à la définition d’un projet ou à la création d’un service. Pourtant s’ils apparaissent évidents, naturels, ils sont l’objet d’une construction sociale. Cette recherche se propose d’étudier le processus de fabrication des besoins sociaux dans la politique d’accueil des jeunes enfants en France en partant des questions suivantes : comment les besoins adviennent-ils sur la scène publique, dans quelle mesure sont-ils pris en considération, comment sont-ils exprimés ? Trois déterminants des besoins ont été au cœur de l’analyse : le politique, l’individu et le marché. Nous avons montré que les besoins sociaux reçoivent plusieurs formes de « mise en visibilité » pour exister publiquement mais que cette politisation aboutit partiellement à les faire reconnaître comme un vrai problème. Par ailleurs, la reconnaissance des besoins sociaux passe par leur transformation en une « demande sociale ». Dans le secteur de la petite enfance, cette expression est rendue difficile parce que la photographie des besoins qui ressort des enquêtes est très hétérogène, mais aussi en raison de l’existence d’une non-demande (le non-recours au service), et à cause des situations « d’imprévisibilité » dans lesquelles se trouvent les parents par rapport à leur mode d’accueil. Enfin, les besoins sont étroitement liés à ceux qui les couvrent. Dans le cadre du nouveau marché des crèches d’entreprise, un déplacement s’opère : les besoins des familles sont mis en arrière-plan au profit de ceux des entreprises et des collectivités financeurs et potentiels clients des services. Ceci étant, les entreprises de crèches continuent à faire exister les besoins des familles, autrement, de manière plus quantitative, notamment par les plates-formes de réservation de places et par la promotion de deux figures du parent, celle du « salarié-parent » et celle du « parent-prospect ». / In social life, needs are considered as a necessary prerequisite to the definition of a project or the creation of a service. Though they seem obvious and natural, they result from a social construction. This research sets out to study the making process of social needs regarding child care policy in France from the following questions : how do needs arise on public scene, to what extent are they taken into consideration, how are they expressed ? Three determinative were at the heart of our analysis : politics, market and the individual. We have shown that social needs acknowledge several forms of “visibiliting” so as to exist on public scene but that actually this politicization partially succeeds in making them recognize as a real problem. On the other hand, the recognition of social needs goes through their transformation into one social request. In child care field, this expression turns out to be difficult, because the picture of the needs which emerge from surveys is very heterogeneous, owing to the existence of no-requesting (no-resorting to services), because of some situations of “unpredictability” in which parents cope with child minding. Finally, needs are closely linked to those who cover them. Within the context of the firm child care centres’ new market, a transfer has occurred : families’ needs have been relegated to the background to the profit of the firms and local communities’ ones :services’ financing and potential customers. Yet, market continues making families ‘ needs exist but differently, in a more quantitative way, in particular through child care centres’ websites and also by the promotion of both new faces of the parent : “salaried-parent” and “prospect-parent”.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:13:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacaodenise.pdf: 1448047 bytes, checksum: 995a2779a0af3816135d096fb57bae2f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-30 / This research set out to study the meaning and significance of childhood, family and crèche for educators and family members of children attending a philanthropic institute in the southern region of Goiânia. In order to carry out this investigation, the socio-historical-dialectical method was used to study the phenomena of the concrete reality, in ongoing relationships with other phenomena, which are formed in the contradictions of antagonistic forces of movement and transformation. The unfolding of the social reality from a perspective of wholeness requires work of appropriation, organization and exposition of the facts, in which the target is the thought-out concrete reality. This theoretical appropriation involves the exercise of critical interpretation and evaluation of the facts, as a fundamental prerequisite for dialectic thinking. As a result of this epistemological stance, a qualitative approach was proposed for the investigative process and for the treatment of information. To arrive at these, semi-structured interviews were used, in which the subjects co-participants of the research process were able to express their opinions freely about the proposed themes, in order to allow for a broader understanding of the object under investigation. Working from these theoretical methodological presuppositions, an effort was made to understand the different meanings which family members and educators build around the role of the family and crèche, in caring and educating in the early years of childhood. In the analysis of the speech of the subjects, an understanding was sought of the meanings attributed to childhood: those connected to an idealized and naturalized conception of the child or those which permit an understanding of them as social subjects, involved in the concrete reality of social relationships. As well as that, it was hoped to grasp the conception of education, through analyzing the meaning attributed to the family and crèche in the social task of caring for and educating children from birth to the age of three. At different moments throughout this analytical process, it was possible to detail the meaning which the subjects attributed to the proposed themes and relate the similarities and differences between the constructed meanings, in their individual and social journeys. Meaning is understood as the most stable dimension of the word, but only one of the meaning zones which it acquires in the context of a discourse. Meaning is the sum of all the psychological factors which a word provokes in the conscience. It is the most singular aspect of the subject. Even though this distinction is adopted, the concepts of significance and meaning are understood as inseparable in the awareness of the subject, in his/her concrete involvement in life. These two dimensions in the process of meaning express the singularity and universality of social life in which the subject is, at the same time, product and producer. Thus, in this study, meaning and significance were analyzed at the same time, in the search for an understanding of the dialectic between the two. However, preference was given to the analysis of significance in order to make a comparison possible between two groups of interlocutors: family members and educators. The organizing plank of this investigation was the family, understood both as the milieu and as the social group, made up of people who assume different roles, and live out complex affective exchanges. They construct and reconstruct their understanding of the world and of themselves, mutually influencing each other to the extent that they are organized to satisfy individual and group necessities. Their involvement in the educational milieu of the crèche by means of the child provokes a construction of meanings and significance permeated by conflict and tensions in the social group. / A presente pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo os sentidos e significados de infância, família e creche atribuídos por educadoras e familiares de crianças atendidas por uma creche filantrópica da região sul de Goiânia. Para empreender esta tarefa investigativa, optou-se pelo método sócio-histórico-dialético, que estuda os fenômenos da realidade concreta em permanente articulação com outros fenômenos, constituídos nas relações de contradições entre forças antagônicas, de movimento e transformação. Foi necessário, para tanto, retomarmos a leitura dos clássicos que contribuíram para a construção da concepção dialética de mundo e de homem que orientam essa opção metodológica: Marx (1985 e 1980), Marx e Engels (2005), Gramsci (1987), Kosik (1986), Vasquez (1986), Wallon (1981, 1975), bem como seus interpretes mais recentes: Barbosa (1997), Barbosa, Magalhães e Alves(2003), Rey (2003 e 1997), Andery (2000), Ianni (1985), Carone (1984), Frigotto (1989), Gamboa (1989), dentre outros. Como decorrência desta postura epistemológica, propôs-se uma abordagem qualitativa, no processo investigativo e no tratamento das informações. Na obtenção dessas, optou-se pela entrevista semi-aberta, em que os sujeitos - co-participantes - do processo de pesquisa puderam manifestar livremente suas opiniões sobre os temas propostos, a fim de possibilitar uma compreensão mais ampla do objeto investigado. Na análise das falas dos sujeitos, buscou-se compreender que significados são atribuídos à infância: aqueles ligados a uma concepção idealizada e naturalizada de criança ou aqueles que permitem compreendê-la como sujeito social, inserido na realidade concreta das relações sociais. Além disso, pretendeu-se captar a concepção de educação, analisando o significado atribuído à família e à creche na tarefa social de cuidar e educar as crianças na idade de zero a três anos. Neste processo de análise, em vários momentos, foi possível explicitar os sentidos que os sujeitos atribuíam aos temas propostos e relacionar as semelhanças e diferenças entre os significados construídos, em suas trajetórias individuais e sociais. Para tanto, partiu-se do referencial teórico de Vygotsky (2001, 1989, 1987) e Bakhtin (1999). O eixo articulador desta investigação foi a família, compreendida como meio e como grupo social, constituído por sujeitos, que assumem determinados papéis, vivenciam complexas trocas afetivas, constroem e reconstroem sua compreensão de mundo e de si mesmas, influenciando-se mutuamente, na medida em que se articulam para a satisfação das necessidades individuais e do grupo. Sua inserção, por meio da criança, no ambiente educativo da creche provoca no grupo social a construção de sentidos e significados permeados por conflitos e tensões.

The study sought to establish the quality of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes. It was therefore important that the researcher investigates whether the ECD programmes were meeting the expectations of the quality indicators and consequently the holistic needs of ECD children. The qualitative design methodology was used in this study. Self-constructed observation checklists and in-depth interview guides were used. The participants in the study were 10 school heads, 10 ECD teachers and 10 ECD parents, one from each of the ten schools under study from Harare low and high density suburbs. The data were content analysed. The findings of the study revealed that school heads incompetently managed the ECD curriculum. It was also revealed in the study that ECD policies existed in schools but some were not adhered to which impacted negatively on the quality of ECD programmes. Findings of the study also revealed that the components of a quality ECD programme which included; nutrition, health and safety, parental involvement, stakeholder involvement, guidance and counselling in ECD were compromised. The study showed that ECD personnel qualifications were varied. The study also revealed that teaching methods in ECD were all child-centred though some ECD parents and school heads criticised the play-way and child-centred method of teaching. Findings revealed that material, financial and human resources were scarce. It was concluded that the quality of ECD programmes in Harare primary schools was compromised. It was recommended that training of all stakeholders on ECD management and organisation would bring about a better understanding of ECD programmes, mounting staff development workshops on practical skills training in guidance and counselling of ECD children for ECD teachers, school heads and counsellors and, inviting parents as resource persons when teaching certain concepts would improve the quality of ECD programmes. Recommendations for further study were made / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (Psychology of Education)

The study sought to establish the quality of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programmes. It was therefore important that the researcher investigates whether the ECD programmes were meeting the expectations of the quality indicators and consequently the holistic needs of ECD children. The qualitative design methodology was used in this study. Self-constructed observation checklists and in-depth interview guides were used. The participants in the study were 10 school heads, 10 ECD teachers and 10 ECD parents, one from each of the ten schools under study from Harare low and high density suburbs. The data were content analysed. The findings of the study revealed that school heads incompetently managed the ECD curriculum. It was also revealed in the study that ECD policies existed in schools but some were not adhered to which impacted negatively on the quality of ECD programmes. Findings of the study also revealed that the components of a quality ECD programme which included; nutrition, health and safety, parental involvement, stakeholder involvement, guidance and counselling in ECD were compromised. The study showed that ECD personnel qualifications were varied. The study also revealed that teaching methods in ECD were all child-centred though some ECD parents and school heads criticised the play-way and child-centred method of teaching. Findings revealed that material, financial and human resources were scarce. It was concluded that the quality of ECD programmes in Harare primary schools was compromised. It was recommended that training of all stakeholders on ECD management and organisation would bring about a better understanding of ECD programmes, mounting staff development workshops on practical skills training in guidance and counselling of ECD children for ECD teachers, school heads and counsellors and, inviting parents as resource persons when teaching certain concepts would improve the quality of ECD programmes. Recommendations for further study were made / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (Psychology of Education)