Esta tese se compõe de três ensaios que conjuntamente pretendem explorar o papel da família no desenvolvimento humano, destacando especialmente sua função de cuidado na primeira infância e sua influência na formação das habilidades cognitivas e socioemocionais. A hipótese geral parte da premissa que a família é o espaço social com maior influência no desenvolvimento infantil e que determina inclusive os efeitos que outros espaços de educação e cuidado como a creche podem ter nos resultados das crianças. A família representa uma rede de cuidados e afetos, mas também pode constituir um lugar de privações para o bem-estar humano. As características das famílias tanto estruturais como de dinâmicas internas definem os fatores de proteção e os fatores de risco para o desenvolvimento infantil. Nesse sentido, no primeiro ensaio realiza-se uma discussão teórica a partir de abordagens da psicologia e da neurociência sobre como as experiências na família e nos períodos sensíveis da infância determinam resultados das crianças, definindo, por exemplo, o desenvolvimento do cérebro e da personalidade. Nessa linha, apresentam-se as práticas parentais positivas e os estilos parentais participativos como referências para ambientes adequados e de estímulo. O ensaio também analisa o conceito de resiliência e que permite identificar fatores que explicam por que algumas crianças que ainda expostas a ambientes adversos podem atingir boas competências e desempenho. De igual forma, o ensaio discute sobre as habilidades cognitivas e não cognitivas e o papel central das emoções no desenvolvimento humano. No segundo ensaio, avalia-se o desenvolvimento infantil do Chile contemplando diferentes dimensões das crianças, como a cognitiva, socioemocional e motricidade. Considera-se também, ao mesmo tempo, a influência de fatores familiares sobre o nível de desenvolvimento atingido pelas crianças. Para esse objetivo aplica-se o modelo “Multiple Indicator Multiple Causes – MIMIC” que faz parte dos Modelos de Equações Estruturais (SEM). Neste artigo, também se operacionaliza parte da concepção da Abordagem das Capacitações fundamentada por Amartya Sen e Martha Nussbaum ao considerar as oportunidades das crianças atingirem seu desenvolvimento de acordo às condições impostas por suas famílias, seja por suas características estruturais ou socioeconômicas como a renda ou por dinâmicas interna da família associadas ao grau de sensibilidade, práticas de envolvimento parental e exercício de práticas de disciplina. Por fim, no terceiro ensaio avaliam-se os efeitos da creche no desenvolvimento cognitivo e socioemocional das crianças chilenas de 4 a 5 anos, condicionado às características da família, como o status socioeconômico, o grau de sensibilidade materna e as práticas de envolvimento parental. Os resultados mostram que a maior exposição à creche tem maiores benefícios nas habilidades cognitivas de crianças de baixo status socioeconômico do que nas crianças de famílias de maior status. No entanto, há evidências de efeitos negativos da creche sobre os resultados das crianças quando o grau de sensibilidade e envolvimento parental é baixo. Desta forma, este ensaio contribui ao entendimento da importância do engajamento parental para que programas de cuidado à infância como a creche tenham maior sucesso e possam cooperar no desenvolvimento infantil. / This thesis consists of three essays that together aim to explore the role of family in human development, focusing on its care function during the early childhood and its influence on the formation of cognitive and socio-emotional skills. The general hypothesis consists that family is the social space with most influence on child development and it even could determine the effects that other social spaces like the daycare may have on child outcomes. Family is a network of care and affection, but it can also be a place of deprivation for human well-being. The structural characteristics of family as well as internal dynamics define protective and risk factors on child development. In the first essay, a theoretical discussion is done from the approach of psychology and neuroscience, and it explains how experiences in families during sensitive periods in childhood determine child outcomes, defining, for example, brain development and personality. In that sense, positive parenting practices and authoritative parenting style are indicated as references of suitable environments that encourage child development. The essay examines the concept of resilience and through this is possible to identify factors to explain why some children exposed to adverse environments can achieve good performance and skills. Also, the essay discusses about cognitive and non-cognitive skills and the central role of emotions in human development. In the second essay is evaluated the child development in Chile. This analysis includes different dimensions of children, such as cognitive, social-emotional and motor skills and considering at the same time, the influence of family factors on the level of development achieved by the children. For this objective, it is applied the model "Multiple Indicator Multiple Causes - MIMIC" which is part of the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). In this paper also is used the Capability Approach founded by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum considering the real opportunities of children to achievement their development according the conditions imposed by their families, either by their structural or socioeconomic characteristics such as income or by family internal dynamics associated with the degree of sensitivity, parenting practices and practices of discipline. Finally, the third essay evaluates the effects of daycare on cognitive and socio-emotional development of Chilean children of 4-5 years conditioning to family characteristics, such as socioeconomic status, degree of maternal sensitivity and parental involvement practices. The results showed that more exposure to daycare has more benefits in cognitive skills of children of low socioeconomic status than in children from families of higher status. However, there are evidences of negative effects of daycare on children's outcomes when the degree of sensitivity and parental involvement is low. Thus, this paper contributes understanding the importance of parental involvement for that child care programs like daycare have greater success and these can cooperate in the child development.

Orientador: Ana Lúcia Goulart de Faria / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T10:00:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Schifino_RenyScifoni_M.pdf: 7941378 bytes, checksum: 5151bb230c4937191df3afd8570d72cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Este estudo teve por objetivo investigar a luta atual pelo direito das mulheres operárias e suas crianças à creche pública de Santo André, município do Grande ABC do estado de São Paulo. Luta cuja trajetória ganha destaque com a efervescência dos movimentos social e sindical, nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, no Brasil. Para tanto, utilizou-se de levantamento bibliográfico, análise documental e entrevistas com mães operárias que têm filhos e filhas matriculadas em uma das creches da rede pública deste município. A analise dos dados mostrou que as mães defendem, lutam, para além de seus direitos trabalhistas uma vez que fica explícita a busca por educação pública, gratuita e de qualidade, o que desconstrói o discurso recorrente de que as famílias das camadas populares buscam as creches única e exclusivamente enquanto local de guarda e assistência para suas crianças. Demonstra, ainda, que as mesmas valorizam a presença de profissionais especializadas e o fato de seus filhos e filhas conviverem em um espaço coletivo de educação complementar a família, criando condições para a produção das culturas infantis. / Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the current struggle for the rights of working class womens and their children for day care center of Santo André, a city in the "Grande ABC", in the State of São Paulo. A struggle whose trajectory stands out with in the effervescence of social and union movements, in the 1970s and 1980s in Brazil. For this purpose, we used a literature review, document analysis and interviews with working class mothers, who have sons and daughters registered in public daycare centers in this municipality. The data analysis showed that mothers defend, fight, beyond their labor rights, highlighting their the search for public, high quality free, basic education, which deconstructs the recurrent discourse that the working class families look for day care center exclusively as a place of custody and care for their children. The research also shows that they value the presence of specialized professionals and the fact that their children live together in a collective education space, complementary to the family by creating conditions for the production of child cultures. / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Mestre em Educação

Japan is facing a great demographic shift, where by 2050 more than 40% of it's inhabitants will be over the age of 65 years. The womens emencipation from the role of stay at home mothers has allowed them to have careers of their own, although a good thing it does not leave a lot of room for starting a family in Japan's hard working climate. This new cultural norm has collided with the the long tradition of family care and Japan is now facing a large cultural collision, where there is a great lack of working solutions for child and senior care. The project suggests a prototypical intergenerational day care center for elderly and children in Tokyos dense now-rise residential neighborhoods. This form of care started being built in America during the 90's and has prooven to provide some of the best care availible for elderly and children. / Japan möter i dagsläget ett stort demografiskt skifte, till år 2050 kommer mer än 40% av befolkningen att vara över 65 år gamla. Kvinnornas frigörelse från hemmet har tillåtit dem att påbörja egna arbetsliv och karriärer, vilket inte lämnar mycket rum för att starta egen familj i Japans hårda arbetsklimat. Denna nya kulturella norm har kolliderat med den traditionella familjevården och Japan står idag utan en bra lösning för barn- och äldrevård. Det föreslagna projektet är ett prototypiskt intergenerationellt dagvårdscenter för barn och seniorer i Tokyos täta lågbebyggda bostadsområden. Intergenerationell vård började byggas under 90-talet i USA och har visat sig ge bland den bästa vården tillgänglig för barn och äldre.

Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / The child's becoming is influenced by the education situation as a whole. The mother-child relationship plays a crucial role to the child's becoming, hence the initial bonding between mother and child is considered all-important. All further becoming is based on the motherchild relationship. Another factor that influences becoming is the family situation, with specific reference to the father. Because the family functions in the context of a particular society, the shift of emphasis in the modem family and social factors cannot be discounted in the discription of becoming. Becoming takes place in conjunction with learning, development and maturation. These processes are differentiable but inseparable. The different domains of becoming and development, namely the affective, cognitive, normative, physical and social, form the overall context within which the child is investigated. An adequate educational environment leads tot the child's adequate becoming. At the centre of any adequate educational environment is the educator acting as mediator between child and learning content. Both the primary and the secondary educational situation should comply with the requisites for adequacy. An empirical investigation was undertaken in accordance with ideographic research methods. The status of overall becoming and development in children who had been subjected to different types of daycare was determined in relation to the education situation as a whole, which is why both the primary and the secondary educational situation were drawn into the investigation. This research has produced the finding that daycare does not necessarily harm the child's becoming. The overall educational situation must be considered at all times. Daycare has a recognisable influence on the child's becoming, but the mother-child relationship is the most decisive factor for the child's becoming. / Kinderlike wording word deur die opvoedingsituasie as totaliteit belnvloed. Die moederkindverhouding speel die allerbelangrikste rol by kinderlike wording. Daarom word die aanvanklike binding tussen moeder en kind baie hoog aangeskryf. Alie verdere wording word geskoei op die moeder-kindverhouding. Die gesinsituasie, met spesifieke verwysing na die vader, is verdere faktore wat wording belnvloed. Omdat die gesin binne 'n bepaalde samelewing funksioneer, kan die klemverskuiwing van die moderne gesin en die samelewingsfaktore nie buite rekening gelaat word by die beskrywing van wording nie. Wording vind sy neerslag in samewerking met leer, ontwikkeling en ryping. Hierdie begrippe is onderskeibaar, maar kan nooit geskei word nie. Die verskillende domeine van wording en ontwikkeling, naamlik die affektiewe, kognitiewe, normatiewe, fisieke en sosiale domeine, vorm die totaliteit waarbinne die kind beskou word. 'n Toereik:ende opvoedingsmilieu gee aanleiding tot toereikende wording by die kind. Midde 'n toereikende opvoedingsmilieu staan die opvoeder as bemiddelaar tussen die kind en die inhoud. Die primere sowel as die sekondere opvoedingsituasies behoort aan die vereistes van toereikendheid te voldoen. 'n Empiriese ondersoek is aan die hand van die ideografiese navosingsontwerp onderneem. Die wording en ontwikkeling van kinders vanuit verskillende tipes dagsorg is bepaal. Die wording en ontwikkeling van die kind in totaliteit word in aanmerking geneem. Wording word dan in verband gebring met die opvoedingsituasie in sy totaliteit. Daarom is die primere sowel as die sekondere situasies by die ondersoek betrek. Hierdie navorsing bevind dat kinderlike wording nie noodwendig negatief deur dagsorg beinvloed word nie. Die totale opvoedingsituasie van die kind moet telkens in berekening gebring word. Dagsorg oefen wel 'n invloed op kinderlike wording uit, maar die moederkindverhouding is die mees bepalende faktor by kinderlike wording. / Psychology of Education / D. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

La recherche sur les enfants de l’adoption internationale porte le plus souvent sur le rattrapage développemental, les troubles de l’attachement et la surreprésentation des enfants adoptés dans les services d’éducation spécialisée. Ces études incluent des enfants d’âge scolaire et adoptent une perspective quantitative. Peu d’auteurs se sont penchés sur les enfants d’âge préscolaire et il n’existe à notre connaissance aucune étude qualitative permettant d’explorer l’intégration de l’enfant de l’adoption internationale dans son milieu de garde. S’inscrivant dans une logique exploratoire descriptive, la présente thèse vise à donner la parole aux parents et aux éducatrices, premiers responsables de l’intégration de l’enfant au milieu de garde, afin d’obtenir des données sur leurs perceptions et leurs recommandations. Des entrevues individuelles semi-structurées sont réalisées avec 12 familles adoptantes et les 12 éducatrices des enfants. Les parents sont recrutés par l’intermédiaire des associations québécoises de parents adoptants, du journal Montréal pour enfants, d’un blogue sur l’adoption internationale et auprès de la direction d’une garderie. Une démarche d’analyse qualitative inductive, inspirée de la théorisation ancrée est employée pour analyser l’opinion des parents et de l’éducatrice d’un même enfant dans un premier temps puis dans un deuxième temps, selon leurs groupes d’appartenance respectifs. L’analyse des données relatives à l’expérience subjective d’intégrer un enfant en garderie permet de faire ressortir douze thèmes : contexte antérieur à l’arrivée de l’enfant, appréhensions des parents, premiers contacts, demandes spéciales, moments de vie en garderie, développement et spécificité de l’enfant adopté, comportements particuliers, intervention auprès de l’enfant en crise, nouvelles perspectives pour l’éducatrice et éléments de satisfaction et d’insatisfaction des parents. Une importante proportion d’éducatrices considère que l’enfant adopté de l’international ne présente aucun besoin particulier et que son intégration se vit de la même façon que pour tout autre enfant. Cette opinion n’est pas partagée par un groupe restreint d’éducatrices qui, comme les parents adoptifs, ont une expérience personnelle de l’adoption. La thèse se termine par une discussion sur les façons de contribuer à des meilleures pratiques en milieu de garde afin de favoriser l’intégration des enfants de l’adoption internationale. / Research on internationally adopted children is often directed toward catch-up after adoption, attachment security and over representation of adopted children in special needs education. These are quantitative studies which focus on school aged children. Few studies have considered preschoolers and to our knowledge no attention has been given to the daycare environment. Within an exploratory framework, the current thesis investigates the integration of adopted children in daycare through the subjective experience of parents and child care educators. Twelve adoptive families and their current child care educators were recruited through various adoptive parent associations, the Montréal pour enfants newspaper, daycare administrators and a blog on international adoption. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with each family and child care educator. Qualitative inductive analysis using grounded theory coding techniques was first used to uncover critical themes discussed by the parent-educator dyads and then through their respective groups. The following themes on integrating an adopted child in daycare emerged from the data: conditions prior to the arrival of the child in daycare, parent’s apprehensions, first contacts, special requests, daycare routine, adopted child development and particularities, child in crisis, new perspectives for the educator, elements of parent satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The analysis shows that most educators do not consider the adopted child to be different from the other children in the group; and thus the child’s integration does not necessitate special attention or consideration. Adoptive parents along with a small group of educators experienced with the realities of adoption do not share this view. By exploring the experiences of parents and educators of internationally adopted children in daycare, this thesis broadens our knowledge of better practices in daycare centers for integrating an internationally adopted child.

Behavioral skills training (BST) packages have been successful in increasing change agents’ correct implementation of various procedures. The current study evaluated the effects of a brief BST package to train daycare teachers to implement incidental teaching procedures with toddlers. The brief BST consisted of a set of written instructions, a two-minute video model, rehearsal, and feedback during session. Results demonstrated that teachers increased their correct implementation of incidental teaching procedures following training. In addition, two of the three toddlers increased the frequency of signs to request attention.

Relying upon many years of experience as an early childhood educator and consultant, and utilizing examples of programs and forms during the past thirteen years while serving as the Director of Peace Lutheran Preschool/Kindergarten in Owensboro, Kentucky, and as a regional/national early childhood consultant. The author has proposed a manuscript whose purpose is to assist early childhood professionals in the development and implementation of quality, needs-appropriate preschool programs. The eleven chapters are divided into seven areas of concern: program survey, development, purpose, regulation requirements, administration, financing, enrollment, curriculum and day-care. (Within each area are varied appropriate methods of implementation relating to specific outcomes of each desired program.) Curriculum is discussed with emphasis given to programs which are both age and developmentally appropriate for the early childhood area. Day-care materials are discussed in detail in the final chapter, although there are references throughout the manuscript that help explain overlaps in the two types of programs. Since the entire manuscript is based on experiences of the author and was developed from working programs, materials are of a research basis, but they have also been used and tested. Therefore it will be useful to professionals in their existing or planned programs. The author hopes the experiences within this manuscript prove invaluable to the novice in developing and implementing quality early childhood programs. This manuscript’s purpose is to assist those who dedicate their lives to meeting these needs of the young by providing a working guide for early childhood program development.

L’étude de la qualité de l’accueil extrafamilial des enfants d’âge préscolaire pose avant tout la question de la conception même de la qualité et interroge les processus en œuvre dans la définition des critères qui la caractérise. Nous constatons l'existence de deux approches majeures en opposition quant à leurs fondements idéologiques, à savoir, une vision normative et universelle de la qualité et une conception subjective et contextualisée. Ce projet pose la question de la pertinence de dépasser cette opposition, pour tendre vers une approche de la qualité intégrant à la fois des dimensions favorisant universellement le bien-être des enfants accueillis et des dimensions spécifiques au contexte culturel, socio-économique et politique. Cette étude interroge ainsi la pertinence d’utiliser le modèle écosystémique comme support théorique au processus de définition de la qualité. Pour cela, deux axes d’étude ont été élaborés reposant respectivement sur une méthode qualitative et quantitative. La réalisation de 103 entretiens semi-directifs a premièrement permis l’identification des spécificités contextuelles françaises par l’étude des valeurs culturelles et personnelles concernant l’accueil de la toute petite enfance. Les résultats mettent en évidence que la représentation sociale de la qualité porte principalement sur les déterminants de la relation professionnel-enfant, où la dimension éducative ne constitue pas un critère de qualité. Les spécificités du contexte socio-économique et de la politique familiale permettent d’apporter un éclairage à ces résultats. Sur la base de ces éléments, le second axe d’étude a investigué les relations de 35 dyades parents-accueillants et plus spécifiquement, l’impact de leurs attentes respectives sur la qualité de leur relation. L’analyse centrée sur la personne a permis l’établissement de profils d’attentes tels que le conseil, le tutorat, le soutien parental, la confidence, le service professionnel ou encore la satisfaction parentale. L’association des profils d’attentes de chacun des membres des dyades a été établie. La relation entre ces dimensions, le stress parental, le soutien social, l’épuisement professionnel et la qualité de la relation parent-professionnel a été examinée. L’influence des attentes parentales et professionnelles sur la qualité perçue de leur relation dyadique souligne l’importance de considérer des dimensions contextuelles dans le processus de définition de la qualité de l’accueil. Les conclusions de cette recherche ouvrent des pistes de réflexion utiles quant à la pertinence d’envisager une nouvelle approche de la qualité reposant sur le modèle écosystémique de la qualité élaboré par Bigras et Japel (2007). / The study of quality in early childhood education requires that the concept of quality itself and the processes used to define quality requirements are investigated explicitly. Currently, there are two opposing approaches to quality. One approach considers quality as a normative and universal concept while the other regards quality as a subjective and contextually specific concept. In this study, we question the pertinence of these two approaches, going beyond this opposition by integrating dimensions that universally favor children’s wellbeing in daycare and dimensions that are specific to cultural, socioeconomic and political contexts. This study is theoretically anchored in the eco-systemic model. The project is structured into two phases. Both qualitative and quantitative methods are employed. First, 103 structured interviews were realized in order to understand specific cultural values associated with quality services in early childhood out of home care in France. Results indicate that quality of adult-child interaction is rarely mentioned and priority is given to the determinant of these interactions. Educational dimensions of this relationship and meeting children’s learning needs are rarely mentioned as constituent factors of quality. Specific aspects of the socioeconomic context and family politics in France clarify these results. On the basis of these initial findings, the second phase of research investigated 35 parent-professional relationships in daycare centers using questionnaires. Specifically, we examined the impact of their respective expectations and attitudes on the quality of their relationship. Person-centered cluster analyses were performed in order to identify mutual attitude profiles. Dyads were characterized on the basis of their expectations. Parent-professional relationships were described using dimensions such as counseling, tutoring, parent supportive, confidential, professional service or parental satisfaction. Associations between these dimensions, parental stress, social support, professional burnout and perceived quality of parent-professional relationship were examined. The identification of attitudes and expectations and their association with both parents and professionals perceived satisfaction with the relationship underscores the importance of considering contextual dimensions in the process of identifying quality in early childhood education and care. In conclusion, we discuss the relevance of this approach to quality based on eco-systemic model of quality developed by Bigras and Japel (2007) as a prerequisite to understanding child wellbeing in out of home care.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T14:20:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Candice Marques de Lima.pdf: 664175 bytes, checksum: b07d171aabb5a341aeee9c7a569a4301 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-12-31 / The actual study´s objective, based on the historic-cultural psychology and on the proposals of the Qualitative Epistemology by González Rey, aims to understand how the subjectivity of children is constituted in the process of inclusion/exclusion in the daycare center. We view such procedure as complex and contradictory, which is not constituted only by the inclusion or exclusion of children with shortcoming, but the inclusion/exclusion of the diversity and the children denoted by the educators as being incapable, considering that they are children of common lower classes and so were not brought up and were not constituted in the hygienic and behavioral standards of the dominant classes. In our survey the information process was developed using the Qualitative Epistemology above-mentioned. To comprehend the phenomenon researched we have used the filming of interactions between the children and their educators, participants of the survey, contextualized in every day scenes at the daycare center. Such filmings were done at the nursery and kindergarden schools. Afterwards, video interviews were carried out with the educators to make sense regarding the interactions between them and the children in the filmings and through the interpretative construction regarding the filmings and video interviews we have construed indicators which have aided us to comprehend that the interactions between the children and educators create the process of the children´s inclusion/exclusion; the survey mobilizes stimulates the educator´s vision of the child in research, which aids in his/her inclusions procedure; the way the child is subjectived in relation to the educator can be constituted in the inclusion or exclusion process. However, we understand that the communication between educator-child, permeated by affectivity is the essential factor for the process of the child´s inclusion/exclusion in the daycare center. / O presente estudo, baseado na psicologia histórico-cultural e nas propostas da Epistemologia Qualitativa de González Rey, tem como objetivo compreender como se constitui a subjetividade de crianças em processo de inclusão/exclusão na creche. Entendemos tal processo como complexo e contraditório, o qual não se constitui apenas pela inclusão ou exclusão de crianças com deficiência, mas da inclusão/exclusão da diversidade e das crianças significadas pelas educadoras como crianças incapazes, por se tratarem de crianças das classes populares e, portanto, não se desenvolverem e não se constituírem num padrão de higiene e comportamento das classes dominantes. Em nossa pesquisa, o processo de informações foi desenvolvido a partir da Epistemologia Qualitativa acima referida. Para a compreensão do fenômeno pesquisado utilizamos a filmagem das interações entre as crianças e suas educadoras, os participantes da pesquisa, contextualizadas em cenas cotidianas na creche. Tais filmagens foram feitas no berçário e no terceiro agrupamento. Depois, foram realizadas vídeo-entrevistas com as educadoras para que produzissem sentido a respeito das interações entre elas e as crianças nas filmagens e, através da construção interpretativa a respeito das filmagens e das vídeo-entrevistas, construímos indicadores que nos auxiliaram a compreender que a interação entre as crianças e as educadoras produz o processo de inclusão/exclusão das crianças; a pesquisa mobiliza o olhar da educadora para a criança pesquisada, o que auxilia em seu processo de inclusão; a forma como a criança se subjetiva na relação com a educadora pode-se constituir em processo de inclusão ou de exclusão. Portanto, compreendemos que a comunicação entre educadora-criança, permeada pela afetividade, é fator essencial para o processo de inclusão/exclusão da criança na creche.

As interações dos bebês e seus pares de idade, por muito tempo, não foram reconhecidas no campo da Psicologia do Desenvolvimento. No entanto, nas últimas três décadas, este panorama tem sofrido grandes alterações, particularmente pelos avanços no campo que têm reconhecido as capacidades e habilidades comunicativas dos bebês. Desse modo, ele vem sendo entendido como um ser ativo nas interações com outros sociais, comunicando-se por meio dos recursos disponíveis e específicos. Porém, interrogou-se se, nessas relações, a criança pequena e seu parceiro poderiam atribuir e/ ou construir / apreender / expressar significações às suas próprias ações, às dos outros e às situações? Desse modo, a partir de um estudo de caso múltiplo, objetivou-se investigar se ocorre o processo de significações ao longo do primeiro ano de vida, em relações de bebês com seus pares de idade. E, no caso de ocorrerem, investigar como se dá tal processo. Os registros utilizados foram gravações em DVD realizadas em uma creche de um município do interior do Estado de São Paulo. Quatro bebês pivôs foram aleatoriamente selecionados e são: Catarina (5 meses), Priscila (7 meses), Daiane (10 meses) e Marcos (11 meses). Do Banco de Imagens, foram selecionadas todas as cenas em que os sujeitos apareceram, compondo, assim, um bloco de imagens editadas seguindo o tempo cronológico dos acontecimentos. O corpus foi construído a partir da transcrição microgenética de três episódios interativos selecionados de cada sujeito. A análise das cenas realizada foi microgenética, tendo a Rede de Significações como base. A análise dos dados indicou a ocorrência de significações no primeiro ano de vida, mesmo em bebês pequenos (quatro meses), as quais se concretizam de maneira diversa, quando se considera a idade cronológica dos bebês e as características dos próprios bebês. Estas foram reconhecidas como singulares e possuindo uma curta, mas uma concreta história de vida, de relações estabelecidas com os vários outros e consigo mesmo, em diferentes contextos. Nos primeiros meses, a significação mostrou-se construída dentro da concretude das ações e situações (bater os pés atrai o parceiro), assim como das vivências sobre si e o meio (olhar o mundo através da garrafa plástica). Com o avançar dos meses, as significações passaram a ter um cunho já marcado por significados culturais do grupo, através dos gestos, das expressões, do tom dos balbucios, da antecipação da intencionalidade apreendida pelo olhar. Em tais processos, as significações de si, do outro e das situações foram sendo (re)(des)(co)construídas através de uma série de negociações, que colocava os bebês em papéis sociais diversos, o que permitia apreender novas significações constituídas no entorno.Ressalta-se o grande interesse do bebê por outro bebê, mobilizando, (re)agindo e experimentando novas e antigas ações com seu coetâneo. A pesquisa também ressalta que a linguagem pode ser entendida para além do sentido verbal, abrangendo a comunicação, a interação, o corpo, a expressividade e ações realizadas pelo bebê reconhecendo-o como ator, autor e sujeito nas relações com os outros parceiros sociais. / For a long time, interactions between babies and their peers were not acknowledged in the Developmental Psychology field. However, during the last three decades, this scenario has undergone major changes, particularly by the advances in the field that have recognized infants\' capabilities and communication skills. Thus, the baby has been understood as active in social interactions with others, communicating by means of their specific and available resources. However, it was interrogated whether, in these relations, the infant and his/her baby partner could assign and/ or build / apprehend / express meanings regarding their own actions, of the other and the situations. Thus, from a multiple case study it was aimed to investigate whether the process of meanings occurs during the first year of life, within babies\' relationships with their peers. Yet, if we positively identify its occurrence, the goal was to investigate how this meanings process happens. Empirical data was constructed through DVD recordings, related to a three months follow up of babies\' attendance at a daycare center in a municipality of the state of São Paulo. Four infants were randomly selected as pivots and they are: Catarina (5 months), Priscila (7 months), Daiane (10 months) and Marcos (11 months), the ages corresponding to the beginning of the recordings. From the Image Bank, every scene in which the subjects appeared was selected, making four blocks of edited images, preserving the chronological order of events. The corpus was built through the microgenetic transcription of three interactive episodes selected from each subjects. Analysis of the scenes was microgenetic, based on the Network of Meanings perspective. Data analysis indicates positively the occurrence of meanings during the first year of life, even in the very young babies (four months). Such occurrence, however, expressed though diferente ways when considering the chronological age of the babies and the babies\' own characteristics. These were regarding to the children\' life history (even though, beng short), established relationships with several others and himself / herself, in different contexts. During the first months, it was verified that meaning were present within concrete actions and situations (stomping attracts the partner attention), as well as the experiences of the babies\' self related to the environment (look at the world through the plastic bottle). In later months, meanings were already marked by cultural meanings of the social group, expressed / apprehended through gestures, expressions, tone of babbling, anticipation of intentionality apprehended by the eye. In such cases, the meanings of self, others and situations have been (re)(de)(co)constructed through a series of negotiations that put the babies in different social roles, which allowed them to grasp new meanings which were appropriated. It should be noted that there is a great interest of the baby for the another baby, mobilizing, (re)acting and experiencing new and old actions with peers. The survey also points out that language can be understood beyond the verbal sense, covering communication, interaction, body, expressivity and actions taken by the baby, recognizing him / her as an actor, author and subject in relations with other social partners.