Concepções de mães e educadoras sobre desenvolvimento infantil

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Maria dos Remedios Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Psicologia Social; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Concepções de desenvolvimento infantil; Berçários; Mães; Educadoras; Conceptions of childhood development; Nurseries; Mothers; Educators; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7017

The studies on conceptions of parents and educators as to the childlike development characterize an important area of inquiry in Psychology of the Development. The conceptions of parents and educators are developed through their personal, social and cultural experiences which affect the adult-child interaction. Based on this premise, we tried to analyze the concepts that parents and educators have about childhood development, believing that these concepts, and/ or set of ideas that are shared among members of a community, are intended to organize the perception of parents and educators about how they understand the child; and these concepts in turn have motivational properties, which serve as targets, as interpretation of reality and understanding of childhood development, and also, the different forms how parents and educators will take care of the children. From a Vygotskiana proposal, the figure of the mediator has an important role in promoting childhood development, since it is through his way of thinking, conceiving and believing that the practices will be laid down; and consequently how to act with the children, directly influencing their development. The development does not occur linearly by itself but through evolutionary changes; and it can vary in terms of developments or setbacks, according to the environment where it occurs. This study aimed to analyze the views of mothers and educators of children who were four to twenty four months of age on childhood development. With specific objectives, conceptions of mothers and educators were established about childhood development; and also, if they are confluent and / or divergent. This is a descriptive-analytical study with a qualitative approach on the field research of three nurseries from a private network in João Pessoa City on Paraíba State, Brazil. As an instrument of investigation, a semi-structured interview was used with a social-demographic questionnaire; it was prepared by means of the objectives of the study besides other already fulfilled inquiries. Participating of the study were twenty mothers and twenty educators. The criterion for selection of participants was to be mothers of children from four to twenty four months of age, and for educators that specifically take care of those children. The choice of this age group was due to the importance of the early years of life for childhood development. All interviews were taped, transcribed and analyzed from the standpoint of the thematic-categorical content proposed by Bardin, with categories that were defined later. The results revealed that mothers and teachers had similar notions of childhood development in some respects, but we could perceive that the testimonies of the educators had more elements in relation to the meanings attributed to childhood development. This research has good applicability to support programs in educational policies and suggests that there must be studies comparing public and private nurseries.