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Body instruction for teachers of babies: contributions of the Theatre Pedagogy

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Author(s):
Lucia Maria Salgado dos Santos Lombardi
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto; Ana Angélica Medeiros Albano; Maria Angela Barbato Carneiro; Monica Appezzato Pinazza; Marilene Proenca Rebello de Souza
Advisor: Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto
Abstract

This research aims at developing professionals in the educational field who deal with the first stage of human beings´ lives i.e. the period from birth up to three years old since it is a stage of starting life in the latter´s psychological development. The general objective was to investigate how the pedagogues´ knowledge had been developed regarding the expressive body language in their pedagogical practice in babies by analyzing possibilities, challenges and the necessities concerning such instruction. An extension course was created at Faculdade de Educação at Universidade de São Paulo as a methodological procedure. Sixty six pedagogues who work for public daycare centers in São Paulo, Barueri, Cotia, Embu and Francisco Morato joined this course which used some knowledge from the Theatre Pedagogy as a tool in this instruction. Such results say that lacking body language notions can prevent pedagogues, among other things: from understanding of body and movement as a prerequisite for building knowledge and for pedagogical work with infants; from comprehension of the expressive languages in early childhood, besides reviewing some concepts regarding the body, the experience and the baby as a person to avoid body oppression and control over toddlers at schools. Based on collected data from field investigation (extension course) and on the conciliation of these with the bibliography the following categories were analyzed: pedagogues´ body perception instruction, body discipline and repression, perception of babies, reflections about teachers´ instruction and teachers\' values. (AU)