O brincar na educação infantil : a influência das tecnologias digitais móveis no contexto da brincadeira

Abstract

The research that has given rise to this essay emerges from the concerns of the researcher in her performance as a preschool teacher, and has as main objective analyze the act of playing in permeated contexts by mobile devices. As an academic support we were based in the social-interaction approach proposed by the studies of Vygotsky. The main considered concepts were: mediation, socio-interaction, imaginary situation and the ZDP, linking the act of playing with the mobile technologies, in the context of digital culture. We also researched assistance about the act of playing in Winnicott, Kishimoto, Benjamin and Huizinga. The study has been performed in a municipal preschool, with kids from three to four years old. The methodological outlining was based in the qualitative research. In order to develop data, we chose the video recording, which was made in the classroom where the kids develop their games and recreations, every other day, in the morning and in the afternoon. The mobile devices – Smartphone’s and Tablets – were inserted between the toys and other stuffs of the classroom, being available for the children. These video recording generated the corpus that was investigated, from an analyzed process of the images, inspired in the studies of Honorato, Larocca e Sadalla, Leonardos, Silva, Peixoto and Demartini, with the intention to answer our mainspring question: How does the act of playing in preschool modify itself in an scholar context permeated by mobile devices? To the treatment of the data a video recording transcription was made, with the view toward to some theoretical mainspring: mediation, socio-interaction, imaginary situation and the ZDP. This way, we identified the visual and spoken unities. And from these ones we found the emerging categories: Interest in mobile devices, events, mediation, interaction and sociointeraction; imaginary situation and verbalization. This process was inspired in Moraes and Galiazzi (2007). In the link between the categories, looking for the possible changes in the act of playing permeated by mobile devices, we found the plasticity of the mobile devices as an important element, because the screen modifies and adapts itself according to the touch of the kid, awaking their interest in interacting with these devices. In this sense the plasticity can be one of the elements that are related to the changes that were identified in the act of playing, once the mobile devices offer functions, simulations and options of screens and links, that allow multiple ways in the sense of dynamicity from the way the children interact to the devices. The possibility that the mobile devices work as activators of the ZDP, converting the potential in real; and the interaction/socio-interaction and the mediation also got stand out, because when the kid interacts, the possibility that the kid build new cognitive elements increases. In this sense we created some suggestions and ramifications the teaching act in preschool, such that the teacher review their conceptions about the act of playing in the context of the mobile devices’ entry. It is the teacher’s duty mediate, encourage, stimulate and make the materials available to the play, this way benefiting the broadening of the potential of children’s knowledge, from the act of playing.