Continuous formation for childhood education: ways of reflection and knowledge

Abstract

Scientific, historical and cultural advances have considered a child as an individual who presents his or her own singularity. This has brought new configurations of playing as an essential tool for the childhood development. In order to reflect about these aspects, there is a university project named “Games, Toys and Kids Plays: the childhood and its singularity”, which was developed at UFMS/Navirai Campus-MS, between June to November 2019, offered in a 40-hour-course for adults including lectures, plays, games exhibitions, toys, children plays and workshops for producing educational materials. The target public are teachers, coordinators and undergraduate students from Pedagogy Course. The general aim from this work is to implement actions for teachers from childhood education by talking and discussing, selecting and producing pedagogical resources to support educational actions at Integrated Centers of Childhood Education in the city of Navirai, MS. By taking the specific objectives, it is expected to: a) debate researches about “playing” at childhood education; b) analyze games, toys, plays and methodological strategies for working with these tools at childhood education; and c) produce material for using in childhood education institutions.