EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: CONSTRUÇÃO E AVALIAÇÃO DE UM MATERIAL PEDAGÓGICO

Abstract

This research, originated in a Postgraduate Program in Teaching for Basic Education, turned to the structuring axes of child learning and development: interactions and play. It had as objective to build and evaluate pedagogical material for early childhood education, to be used with mediation by parents / guardians in the home environment. Exploratory, initially outlined as documentary research and applied as action research, with an interdisciplinary character, it mixed knowledge from the area of education and pediatrics. It takes as a base the Human Development by Papalia and Feldman (2013), the studies by Vigotski (2010) and the play in the conception of Kishimoto (2001) to carry out an analysis of the part related to children aged two to three years in two documents: Base National Common Curriculum (BNCC) and the Denver 2 Development Screening Scale. From the data obtained with this documentary research, the pedagogical material in the form of a toy was devised and constructed. Afterwards, it was tested in a group of 16 children, between two and three years old, from a non-governmental daycare, evaluated by their parents/guardians and reformulated, giving rise to a toy, named “Rabbit Hole”. The research brought as considerations, in addition to the toy presented as the educational product of the dissertation, the importance of interdisciplinarity for teaching-learning and the need to problematize the particularities of early childhood education, such as the sharing of responsibilities between school and family and the teaching role this stage, which goes beyond caring and constitutes the basis and foundation of the educational process.