The purpose of the study was to investigate if empathic communication (see definition further down) can contribute to children´s participation in a preschool environment. The purpose is answered through my research questions: Does the preschool teachers work through an empathic approach, and if so how is it manifested in their cooperation with the children? Empathic communication in this context is equated with the term non violent communication; (nvc) an approach and a model of communicating with empathy, compassion and openness, which in itself, may contribute to less violent language and actions among children and adults, as well as greater cooperation and participation levels in their activities. The empirical data for this qualitative theses was collected through two interviews with two preschool teachers working in one nvc oriented preschool. I used semi-structured interviews, which is characterized by open questions and a curious and open attitude for me as an interviewer, where I tried to follow the interviewee by asking follow-up questions. Another part of the material I collected through non-participating observations of twelve children and one preschool teacher, in their everyday activities in a nvc oriented preschool. The theoretical understanding is based on the socio cultural perspective, a theory used to describe awareness of circumstances surrounding individuals and how their behaviors are affected specifically by their surrounding, social and cultural factors. This perspective also relates to how we communicate, understand, relate and cope with one another. The three socio cultural concepts cooperation (described through Vygotskijs theories), children´s participitation and empathy, (all parts of the nvc process), are presented and  described as a ground for the analyze of my empirical data. The Results presents the observations and the interviews, analysed through the social cultural view, in line with Vygotskijs theories of cooperation, as well as through the implication of the concepts children´s participation and empathy. The results are also discussed in the sight of the results of two research surveys, presented in my essay, one investigating the effect of using the nvc as a model in preschools, the other one investigating children´s particiaption in a preschool environment. The conclusions of the study are that empathic communication (nvc) in many ways, can contribute to children´s participation in a preschool environment. This is seen in the interviews and confirmed in the observations; in the children´s behaviors, preschool teachers approach and the unity in their cooperation. The results of this study is also confirmed by other studies in the research field. However, to consolidate my conclusions further, more and deeper studies in this area is needed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:16:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aurimar Pacheco Ferreira.pdf: 709795 bytes, checksum: 0817a7e4a7955bd7d893be4debc94ec1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The theme of this research referred to an experience conducted by NECA Associação dos Pesquisadores de Núcleos de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Crianças e o Adolescente, named Collective Construction Project of Spaces and Times of Peace , which occurred along twelve months (January to December/2006) in seven municipalities of the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, known as Great ABCD, composed by the cities of Santo Andre, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Caetano do Sul, Diadema, Mauá, Ribeirao Pires and Rio Grande da Serra. The operation of the Project was proposed by the Intermunicipal Consortium of the Great ABCD, which represented the juridical collegiate instance of the seven cities, that have been acting in those places for around ten years, as a development agency for the municipalities, affecting the Public Policies and its paths of intermunicipal interactions. The study aimed to investigate the many forms of thematic, the content and the shape of the workshops received by the participants, all them indicated, in their respective cities, by its local municipalities, that was supported by the municipals secretaries of Education, Health, Transport, as well other Public Policies having transversal actuation with the Social Assistances policies. The implementation process of the workshops took twelve months of work, including stages of selection and formation of instructors, work assemblies with the respective municipal secretaries, along with the Greater ABCD Intermunicipal Consortium, local preparation seminaries, mobilization, opening and evaluation of the developed activities. The workshops were accomplished itself between the months of August and December of the year of 2006 and totalized a number of thirty nine, beginning with thirty participants, who were kept in the workshops during four hours a week, during ten weeks. The study presented a cut view about the totality of the workshops and analyses the objective and subjective meanders of such a proposal / O tema desta pesquisa refere-se à experiência realizada pelo NECA - Associação dos Pesquisadores de Núcleos de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Criança e o Adolescente, denominada Projeto Construção Coletiva de Espaços e Tempos de Paz que se desencadeou durante doze meses (janeiro a dezembro / 2006) em sete municípios da Grande São Paulo, na região do ABCD, composta pelos municípios de Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, São Caetano do Sul, Diadema, Mauá, Ribeirão Pires e Rio Grande da Serra. A operação do Projeto foi proposta pelo Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABC, instância jurídica colegiada dos sete municípios, a qual atua há cerca de dez anos, como uma agência de desenvolvimento regional, incidindo sobre as Políticas Públicas e suas formas de interação intermunicipal. O estudo teve como objetivo investigar as diversas formas, a temática, o conteúdo e o formato das oficinas recebidas pelos participantes, todos indicados em cada município pela municipalidade local, por meio das secretarias de municipais de Educação, Saúde, Transporte e demais Políticas Públicas com atuação transversal à política de Assistência Social. O processo de implantação das oficinas compreendeu doze meses de trabalho, com seleção e formação dos oficineiros, reuniões de trabalhos com as respectivas secretarias municipais em conjunto com o Consórcio Intermunicipal do Grande ABCD, seminários locais e regionais de preparação, mobilização, abertura e avaliação dos trabalhos. As oficinas em si foram realizadas entre agosto e dezembro de 2006 e foram constituídas de trinta e nove, com trinta participantes inscritos, carga horária de quatro horas semanais, durante dez semanas. O estudo apresenta uma visão recortada da totalidade das oficinas e analisa os meandros objetivos e subjetivos de uma proposta dessa natureza