Gender relations in the Child Education: an analysis from the playful activity / Relações de gênero na Educação Infantil: uma análise a partir da atividade lúdica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The general methodology consisted of analysing the process of gender identities through the use of symbolic (role playing) games. The questions which guided this research were: What kind of patterns are girls and boys of Laboratório de Desenvolvimento Infantil (LDI) and Laboratório de Desenvolvimento Humano (LDH) producing and reproducing in their games? Do roles played in the games indicate changes that have occurred into family relationships or gender relationships of current society? Is there a sexual power hierarchy in the social relationships settled between boys and girls in their games? As a working strategy, we have adopted the Theory of Piaget and the use of Psychodrama. We have focused on the role of social interactions in the games and knowledge acquisition in the childrens development. We have also looked in depth the family as an institution and in a historical context for the social structure that it has provided. Systematic observations of games developed by children aged between 4 and 6 were made, especially in the area of dramatic games played by students of LDI and LDH in UFV. To analyse the information, we focused on ideas used by girls and boys in the pshychodramatic roles that they played, and how the established patterns of family life affect the games out come. The results pointed to a series of ongoing changes in the standards of sexual division of work, also in the gender relationships, in the marriage and in the family. We observed that the mothers role is the one that girls played the most, although they have played other roles that highlight situations experienced by women, which has been defined by some researchers as the identity fragmentation. The principal roles of boys were those of sons and animals, and their presence in the dramatic area was smaller compared to the girls. The research contributed to show how the game is an important source of data for use in the analysis of gender relationships in childhood, in the age group studied, considering that at that age children have already passed from an operation based on action to a representative operation. In addition, it was found that throughout the development period, the children continue to build their gender identities, as well as the physical, the logicalmathematical and the social knowledge.

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jogos infantis simbólicos identidade (psicologia) symbolic play educação de crianças economia domestica child education identity (psychology)

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