Os significados construídos pelas crianças da educação infantil ribeirinha de Manaus.

Abstract

This research entitled The meanings constructed by the children of the riverside children's education in Manaus had as main objective to understand the meanings constructed by the small children in the educational processes that characterize their experiences in the infantile education of a municipal public school riverside of Manaus. In order to reach this goal, it was necessary to know the socio-cultural context of the community where young children live, to identify the school experiences offered to them in the riverside school, and to investigate the instruments that permeate the universe of children in relation to their school experiences. The methodology, with a qualitative approach, consisted of documental analysis, participant observation and semi-structured interview with the small children of the children's education. The school where the research was carried out is located in the Nova Esperança Community, Igarapé do Tiú, Tarumã Açú River, in the ribeirinha area of Manaus, and is the place where collective life favors the interactions of the children in group and activity under the guidance of the teacher, being an environment that receives influences from sociocultural conditions constantly. Once understood that these situations contribute to their learning and development process, it is possible to attribute meanings in their space in the school and re-significances of the interaction in the educational process. The historicalcultural theory, the theoretical foundation of this research, brings us the understanding of the process of human development under the conditions of life and education of the individual, and not as a result only of biological factors. With this vision, this theory seeks the emancipation of the subject, through developmental education, wave each individual is protagonist of his learning and development process. For Vygotsky, knowledge occurs in a dialectical relationship between the subject mediated by signs and instruments. Signs are socially constructed by culture and internally oriented. The instruments serve as the guiding way of human influence on the object of the activity. By appropriating signs, the child expresses his language and organizes his thoughts. Therefore, according to the results of this research, for children in riverside education, considering that each child has a context in the rural riverside area, is to understand that children are composed of different experiences and demand other experiences generated from the specific cultural dynamics . Within historical-cultural theory this means that it is impossible to think of a generalized description of the ways of educating. The children's universe at school and the social relations involving small children in the riverside area - the Amazon region - can be considered as a demonstration to become a subject for new scientific investigations.