Orientador: Elisabeth Gelli Yazlle / Banca: Solange Franci Raimundo Yaegashi / Banca: Maria de Fátima Araújo / Resumo: Este trabalho é fruto de nossas inquietações, em relação à educação sexual que as crianças vêm recebendo atualmente, principalmente em creche universitária. Tem como objetivo investigar a compreensão que as educadoras de creche têm acerca das manifestações da sexualidade de crianças de zero a três anos de idade. Considerando que as crianças pequenas manifestam sua sexualidade também no decorrer de seus contatos com tais adultos, abordamos, também, aspectos referentes à formação destes profissionais, especificamente na área da Educação Infantil, como também em um estudo mais aprofundado sobre educação sexual na infância. O desenvolvimento da sexualidade das crianças pequenas foi estudado sob o enfoque dos seguintes teóricos: Sigmund Freud, René Spitz, Jean Piaget e Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, que, com seus estudos contribuíram para explicar a evolução psíquica, afetiva e cognitiva de uma criança. Neste estudo foram entrevistadas oito educadoras de uma creche universitária, da cidade de Maringá-PR, utilizando como instrumento de coleta de dados uma entrevista semi-estruturada, com roteiro previamente estabelecido. A partir da análise das entrevistas foi possível verificar-se que, apesar das recentes informações sobre a sexualidade infantil, as educadoras apresentam dificuldades em educar seus alunos, principalmente pela não educação que tiveram enquanto crianças. / Abstract: This research happened because of the worries that were brought up by the work about sexual education developed in the university childcare center. The main objective of this study is to investigate the comprehension and knowledge that the childcare center educators have about sexuality of children from 0 to 3 years old. knowing that this children have sexual related behavior during their being with these adults, we also studied how these professionals were prepared, specially on their child education. The children's sexual behavior was studied under the theories of the following authors Sigmund Freud, Rene Spitz, Jean Piaget and Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, who also explained the Psychological, cognitive and affective development. In this paper eight child educators from the University of Maringa Childcare Center were interviewed in the city of Maringa-PR, using as means of data resource a semi-structured previously established schedule. From the interviews' analysis it was possible to see that, although the recent information about child sexuality, the educators had difficulties in educating the children of the childcare center, mostly because they weren't educated like that when they were children. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2002-11-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:18:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 braga_erm_me_assis.pdf: 348905 bytes, checksum: 863d34a16d5561c8a4246bc76715086c (MD5) / Este trabalho é fruto de nossas inquietações, em relação à educação sexual que as crianças vêm recebendo atualmente, principalmente em creche universitária. Tem como objetivo investigar a compreensão que as educadoras de creche têm acerca das manifestações da sexualidade de crianças de zero a três anos de idade. Considerando que as crianças pequenas manifestam sua sexualidade também no decorrer de seus contatos com tais adultos, abordamos, também, aspectos referentes à formação destes profissionais, especificamente na área da Educação Infantil, como também em um estudo mais aprofundado sobre educação sexual na infância. O desenvolvimento da sexualidade das crianças pequenas foi estudado sob o enfoque dos seguintes teóricos: Sigmund Freud, René Spitz, Jean Piaget e Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, que, com seus estudos contribuíram para explicar a evolução psíquica, afetiva e cognitiva de uma criança. Neste estudo foram entrevistadas oito educadoras de uma creche universitária, da cidade de Maringá-PR, utilizando como instrumento de coleta de dados uma entrevista semi-estruturada, com roteiro previamente estabelecido. A partir da análise das entrevistas foi possível verificar-se que, apesar das recentes informações sobre a sexualidade infantil, as educadoras apresentam dificuldades em educar seus alunos, principalmente pela não educação que tiveram enquanto crianças. / This research happened because of the worries that were brought up by the work about sexual education developed in the university childcare center. The main objective of this study is to investigate the comprehension and knowledge that the childcare center educators have about sexuality of children from 0 to 3 years old. knowing that this children have sexual related behavior during their being with these adults, we also studied how these professionals were prepared, specially on their child education. The children's sexual behavior was studied under the theories of the following authors Sigmund Freud, Rene Spitz, Jean Piaget and Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, who also explained the Psychological, cognitive and affective development. In this paper eight child educators from the University of Maringa Childcare Center were interviewed in the city of Maringa-PR, using as means of data resource a semi-structured previously established schedule. From the interviews' analysis it was possible to see that, although the recent information about child sexuality, the educators had difficulties in educating the children of the childcare center, mostly because they weren't educated like that when they were children.

This study investigated the use of storytelling in order to support children's emergent literacy in Malawi's resource deprived Community Based Childcare Centers (CBCCs). It focused on the professional development of four caregivers from four CBCCs following a Formative and Design Experiment model, and using qualitative methods of inquiry. The professional development on storytelling was designed following an informative two-week observation period. Following the observation, a daylong professional development was organized to train the caregivers. In the seven-week intervention period that followed the professional development, the main focus of the study was on the perceptions of the caregivers about their participation in a professional development on storytelling in CBCCs, their responses to using storytelling, and their perceptions about children's responses to using storytelling in CBCCs. Data that informed the study comprised caregivers' reflective notes in their journals, individual caregiver weekly interviews, weekly focus group discussions, and research reflective field notes that were collected over seven weeks after the professional development. Findings suggested that the four caregivers found the professional development beneficial to them all. However, out of the four caregivers, three of them and their respective children demonstrated benefit from storytelling, growth in knowledge and development of storytelling skills. The three caregivers reported becoming more connected with the children, understood them better, found storytelling to be a teaching approach, and felt that their teaching was made easier and enjoyable. The children taught by these three caregivers enjoyed their learning and even resourced stories from their communities. They too, became storytellers. In the end, the caregivers felt that they were ready to share their experiences with other caregivers in Zomba District in Malawi. These findings suggest that storytelling could be used in support of emergent literacy at a larger scale, as well as serve as springboard for pedagogical training of the caregivers culminating in the development of locally available teaching and learning resources in the Malawian CBCC. / Ph. D.