Crianças, televisão e brincadeiras : uma das histórias possíveis / Children, television and games : one of the possible histories

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

25/07/2011

RESUMO

This study aims to investigate the relations that children establish between television and their way of playing, inserted in a contemporary, technological society. The participants of this research are children in age between nine to seven years old, students from a private school of Uberlandia-MG. An ethnographic methodology has been used by mean of data registration related to the ways of playing in the scholar space and the appropriation of the television universe realized by these children, when this is expressed in their playful activities. We have used the participant observation, diary of field, photographs, films, informal conversations and semistructured interviews recorded by a digital recorder. This enabled us to understand that games/plays are transformed with time, where concepts and definitions overlap themselves, in accordance to the scientific and technological advance, determined by social mutations. Mutations, these, inserted in a wider context, in the society history, of which urbanization, increase of the population and mechanization of the cities are part - what dehumanizes the urban space. It has drawn our attention, the difference of gender at the play. Boys and girls have different themes, determined by culture; however, both create values and (re) create infant cultures. Also, the plays change their representation, in its majority, but preserve their essence, as in the results of this study, where the television lends itself in feeding the plays. By the other side, not all content aired on television is incorporated to the playful practices. So, it is indispensable that the television universe is connected to the structure of plays, which are less changed than the representations and their contextualization.

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crianças televisão brincadeiras brinquedos gênero children television games toys gender

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