Abstract

SODRE, Liana Gonçalves Pontes. Children’s indications about a space adapted as a kinden garden. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.1, pp.73-91. ISSN 1808-4281.

The buildings are more and more turned to attend to the human being’s necessities and in this way, this study was proposed to analyze the environmental quality of a school adapted to function as a space for a Kinden Garden. It is an exploratory study with children from 4 to 6 years old. They expressed their desires and necessities to an educational environment through drawings and explanation/description of them. The drawings and explanations or descriptions made by the children were analyzed and their answers were ordered in a synthetically and objective way in categories. It is evidenced in them: emphasis in the outside environment and animals, in the elements for entertainment and children’s play and toys, but it is also evidenced the interest for material resources that traditionally compound the pedagogical spaces. Independently their age-bracket this study confirms that the children as users, are capable of discriminating relevant aspects to their development process. Moreover, it is possible to affirm that they, in the spaces of public education, are not always attending environments with the constructive quality indicated by the studious of the engineering, architecture and psychology area.

Keywords : Child; Kinden garden; School buildings.

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