Orientador: Anita Liberalesso Neri / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T04:46:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Todaro_MonicadeAvila_D.pdf: 1336887 bytes, checksum: 358cc7151d1a4ba79513390a5d4feaf3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Investir na educação de crianças com vistas à melhoria das atitudes em relação aos idosos é uma medida de longo prazo que pode auxiliar os indivíduos e as sociedades a envelhecer melhor. Objetivos: a) Construir e avaliar a confiabilidade interna de uma escala diferencial semântica (DS) para avaliar atitudes infantis em relação a idosos. b) Verificar as atitudes de crianças, controlando gênero, idade e intensidade da convivência com os avós; c) Testar a eficácia de um programa educacional de leitura de textos infantis de ficção, contendo personagens idosos. Métodos: Foram 248 crianças entre 7 e 10 anos (130 meninas), 25% de cada idade e série (1ª a 4ª). Foram levantados significados de velhice e cotejados com a teoria e com avaliações de especialistas; versões do instrumento foram avaliadas pelas crianças. A intervenção envolveu préteste, tratamento e pós-teste aplicados a 8 subgrupos, dois para cada série, em 5 sessões de 50 minutos. Resultados: Obteve-se uma DS com 14 itens de 3 intensidades, nos domínios cognição, agência, relações sociais e persona. O alfa de Cronbach foi 0,773 no pré-teste e 0,741 no pósteste. As atitudes foram geralmente positivas, mas melhoraram no pós-teste. Os meninos e as crianças mais velhas tiveram atitudes mais negativas, mas foram os que mais melhoraram no pósteste. Ocorreram diferenças entre as crianças que moravam e as que não moravam com os avós em persona, em que estas foram mais negativas; quanto maior o número de atividades realizadas com os avós, mais positivas as atitudes em cognição. Conclusões: Novos estudos metodológicos deverão ampliar a variabilidade da escala de 3 intensidades e realizar medidas de validade interna e de critério. O programa de leitura mostrou-se motivador, eficaz para provocar mudança de atitudes e passível de ampliação e adaptação para crianças de outras idades, como tema transversal do currículo do Ensino Fundamental / Abstract: Investing in children¿s education, having in mind the improvement in attitudes towards aged people is a long-term measure that can help individuals and societies to experiment aging in a better way. Purposes: a) to build and to evaluate the inner reliability of a semantic differential scale (DS) in order to estimate children¿s attitudes towards aged people; b) to verify children¿s attitudes, considering gender, age and intensity of the coexistence with their grandparents; c) to test the effectiveness of na educational reading program of children¿s fiction texts containing aged characters. Methods: research was accomplished with 248 (two hundred and forty-eight) children between 7 (seven) and 10 (ten) years of age (130 ¿ one hundred and thirty ¿ girls), 25 (twenty-five) per cent of each age and each grade (1st to 4th). Meanings attached to old age were raised and compared with specialists theories and evaluations; versions of the instrument were appraised by the children. The intervention involved pre-test, treatment and post-tests applied to 8 (eight) subgroups, two for each grade, in 5 sessions of 50 (fifty) minutes. Results: a DS was obtained with 14 (fourteen) items of 3 (three) intensities, in the domains cognition, agency, social relationships and persona. The Cronbach¿s alpha was 0,773 in the pre-test and 0,741 in the post-test. The attitudes were usually positive, but they got better in the posttest. The boys and older children had more negative attitudes, but they showed the most improvement in the post-test. Differences in persona occurred among the children that lived with the grandparents and the ones who didn¿t , and the latter had more negative results; the larger the number of activities accomplished with the grandparents, the more positive the attitudes in cognition. Conclusions: New methodological studies should enlarge the variability of the scale of 3 intensities and develop measurements of inner validity and criteria. The reading program was shown to promote motivation, proved effective to provoke change of attitudes and susceptible of enlargement and adaptation for children of other ages, as crosscurricular theme in fundamental education / Doutorado / Psicologia Educacional / Doutor em Educação

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