A atitude do educador na construção da autonomia e do brincar livre de crianças bem pequenas: um estudo à luz da abordagem Pikler

Abstract

The present study discusses the role of the educator in the construction of the autonomy of very young children in the context of Early Childhood Education in the light of the Pikler Approach, intertwining discussions about the influence of the educator's attitude in the construction of children's autonomy and the ways in which they play in the classroom. exercise of their autonomy, in order to highlight the essentiality of a pedagogical practice sensitive to details and whose main objective is to promote the necessary conditions so that in playing each child has the opportunity to act on their own initiative and build their autonomy while experiencing a play of meanings. In this trajectory, the Pikler Approach was used as the main theoretical foundation, which permeated the bibliographies of Falk (2016), Soares (2017), Fochi et al. (2017), Falk (2021), among other references to that approach. From this perspective, the study is a qualitative research that is proposed as a general objective to investigate the role of the educator in promoting the autonomy of very young children in an Early Childhood Education institution that bases its pedagogical practice on the Pikler Approach. Based on it, the specific objectives were defined: Identify the educator's attitude in promoting the autonomy of very young children in a Group III class and Analyze the ways in which children play in view of the educator's attitude. For that, a case study was carried out, involving an educator/pedagogue and ten children, in a group of Group III of an Early Childhood Education Center in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. Data collection was carried out through observations recorded on video in order to look closely at the meanings of the empirical field. From the analyses, five attitudes of the educator in the promotion of the child's autonomy were identified, among which, the attitude of Availability and Observation, identified when the educator was observing the children's play and was not sought after, and that of Availability and Service, when the educator was watching the play and when requested by a child, she answered making suggestions and inciting reflections. In relation to playing, five categories of play were evidenced: Heuristic Play; Heuristic Play and Make-believe; Sensory/Tactile Explorations and Movement; Free Movement; and Make-believe; among which, the categories of Free Movement and Playing Free and Make-Believe had the highest percentage of emergency along the video recordings. From the results, we emphasize that when the educator assumes an attitude that respects the child's play and autonomy, it is possible to perceive how much this allows the child to put into practice all his/her power when playing. With this, we emphasize the contributions of the Pikler Approach that reveal the potential and possibilities for a pedagogical practice that prioritizes respect, the affective bond, the child's autonomy and the attentive action of the educator in favor of the integral development of the child in its various dimensions.