Educação infantil: as emoções e os sentimentos expressos pelas crianças bem pequenas ao brincar

Abstract

The present work entitled “Early Childhood Education: The feelings and emotions expressed by very young children while playing” has as main purpose identify the feelings and emotions that children attending Early Childhood Education express when playing spontaneously and when playing based on the teacher’s intentional planning. By contextualizing the Early Childhood Education from some concepts and regulations, it is possible to observe the importance of relationships in the school scenario, the importance of the teacher being willing to make changes so the children can have a high-quality education and, regarding relationships, it is noticeable that feelings and emotions must be present in this environment as they influence childhood development. The methodology applied can be characterized as a bibliographic survey and a field research with a qualitative approach, established by listening to the children as the basis of the methodological procedure. The work presents, as research instrument for data collection, observations and proposals planning with children from a Maternal II class at E.M.E.I Criança Feliz, located in the town of Gaurama- RS. The data collected from playing spontaneously and playing according to the intentional planning were submitted through a content analysis, focused on the children’s expressions of feelings and emotions while playing. In summary, based on the theoretical concepts, it was possible to observe that children express a great diversity of feelings and emotions when playing. It is possible for them to fell happy, sad, angry, surprised, tired and much more; therefore, there is a lack of communication between children and people from the scholar environment, creating conflicts that seem bigger than their real dimension. As a consequence, many times it seems hard to deal with simple and necessary things related to our feelings. Therefore, it is necessary to teach children to reflect on certain events and emotions since the early years of education, so that it do not become a bigger problem in the future, leading to disputes and arguments, which could easily be solved with conversation.