Fairy tales and imagination in Early childhood Education: focus on the historical-cultural psychology and voices of teachers

• Grant number: 11/24186-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Elieuza Aparecida de Lima
• Grantee: Mariana Sampaio
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project's main objective is to verify how fairy tales contribute to reflections on the development of imagination in childhood when presented by their interlocutors. The methodology involves bibliographic research databases of digital information and also field research to give voice to teachers about their understandings, everyday practices, and experiences of children's literature and specifically classic fairy tales from analysis of a collection of the school. Our research will be a locus of the Municipal School of Early Childhood Education, the interior of, the instruments of data collection involve: conducting semi-structured interviews with teachers from kindergarten last year and also observation of their teaching.(AU)