Robotics in early childhood education : a curriculum proposal

• Grant number: 16/00107-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: August 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Curriculum
• Principal Investigator: Deise Aparecida Peralta
• Grantee: Andrew Felipe Silvério Souza
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Ilha Solteira. Ilha Solteira , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal aims to investigate the robotics in school can be an integral part of teaching practice with the possibility of structuring a curriculum for the education of children. And so specifies more describe and analyze: 1) the characteristics that an educational robotics kit must present to constitute, in effect, teaching and evaluation practices in early childhood education; 2) impacts the use of educational robotics kit in the performance of students of early childhood education for the acquisition and development of language advocated by RCNEI, 3) the proposal of a curriculum model for Early Childhood Education to consider the robot as an integrating axis and coordinator of interdisciplinarity in kindergarten. Considering the methodological principle of research with teachers and students, on-the-classroom, work plan will be developed through a literature review and field survey divided into stages, which in turn are subdivided into phases: Step 01 / 01- Phase Discussion and preparation of the tender design with teachers of early childhood education; Step 01 / 02- Phase characterization of school reality; 02 / 01- Phase talk of a model of teaching and learning assessment; Step 02 / 02- Implementation Phase of the planned practice; Step 03 / 01- Phase Analysis of practical proposal; Step 03 / 02- Phase Proposition of a model curriculum for early childhood education; Step 04- robotics Assessment as teaching practice and evaluation and the proposal of a model curriculum for early childhood education.