Abstract

KUHNEN, Ariane; RAYMUNDO, Luana dos Santos; GUIMARAES, Ana Maria Fernandes  and  SANTOS, Gláucia Felicidade dos. The language of physical space in early childhood education. Barbaroi [online]. 2011, n.35, pp. 109-127. ISSN 0104-6578.

This article reports an internship in School Psychology, lasting two semesters, which aimed to address the perspective of bio-ecological model of Bronfenbrenner, the influence of environment for child development in the educational setting. The stage was performed in a class of children under three years of age in an institution for children education. Interviews were conducted with informal teacher observations and coordination in the class mapping using behavioral techniques that made it possible to establish the relationships between children, busy environment and behavior investigated. In the first half, from information obtained identified the need to propose a preventive intervention that would enable the less confrontational socialization among children. The suggested changes in the physical environment were performed in the second half, which resulted in reducing conflicts and increasing the mediation of the teacher in the activities performed.

Keywords : Early Childhood Education; Observation Methods; Environmental Psychology; Developmental Psychology.

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