Name: LAURA HELMER TRINDADE
Publication date: 05/12/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ANDRE DA SILVA MELLO | Presidente |
| MARIA CECÍLIA DA SILVA CAMARGO | Examinador Externo |
| RAQUEL FIRMINO MAGALHÃES BARBOSA | Examinador Externo |
Summary: The main purpose of this dissertation is to examine the challenges and possibilities of teaching Physical Education to babies in the Early Childhood Education context, while acknowledging and valuing their own unique practices and cultural productions. The study uses two methodological perspectives: bibliographic research and ethnographic research. The bibliographic perspective focuses on the academic-scientific work in Physical Education related to teaching babies in Early Childhood Education, through the following databases: the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CTD/Capes), the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), Open Access Scientific Data (Oasis Ibict), and the Capes Journal Portal. From the second perspective, an ethnographic investigation is carried out with a group of babies in a Municipal Early Childhood Education Center in the city of Vitória/ES, over the course of seven months. Data were produced through participant observation and recorded in a field diary, in photographs, and in semi-structured interviews with the class’s Physical Education teacher and the Coordinating teacher. In the interpretation process, the Content Analysis proposed by Bardin (2016) is used, in its thematic approach, to analyze the data from bibliographic research and the interview. In the ethnographic research, Interaction Episodes (Pedrosa & Carvalho, 2005) were used, as they are prototypical of the phenomenon under investigation, in dialogue with the principles of the Sociology of Childhood (Corsaro, 2011; Sarmento, 2013), Everyday Life Studies (Certeau, 2014), and Proxemic Relations (Hall, 2005. The results indicate that the babies make productive use of the cultural materials offered to them, revealing authorial practices driven by their own desires and needs. The proxemic relations revealed particular ways of engaging with social-interactional context, showing that they are active subjects in their own development and socialization processes. Therefore, it is the role of Physical Education, with the collaboration of the various professionals working in Early Childhood Education, to promote experiences with bodily culture that expand babies’ possibilities for acting upon themselves and their physical and social environment, recognizing and valuing them as producers of culture.
Keywords: Physical Education; Babies; Early Childhood Education; Pedagogical practice.
