Abstract

RIBEIRO, Regina Buccini Pio  and  FERREIRA, Aurino Lima. Cultivating attention: an experience with children 4 and 5 years old. Psicol. educ. [online]. 2014, n.39, pp. 89-105. ISSN 1414-6975.

This research discusses issues about a formative experience of cultivating attention. The concept of cultivating attention, and the practices related to it, arises in the fields of psychology and cognitive sciences with the objective of establish a dialogue with the Eastern contemplative traditions, which conceive attention as a human potential to be cultivated into the process of knowledge of themselves and the world. The joints from these searches end up extende the concept of attention and their relationship with learning, communing with visions of education that focus on the complexity of attentional processes. The study refers to project of cultivation of attention, conducted with children 4-5 years old, in a non-formal educational institution. To achieve this purpose, participant observation was applied in a qualitative study with phenomenological perspective. The observation, the contact with lived experience, unfolded in the analysis of three significant scenes. The reading and understanding of the units of meaning from one of these scenes are presented, because they establish relation between the notion of cultivating attention and ludic practices in an educational environment. The dialogue between the cultivating attention and educational practices contributes to build up pedagogic bases for understanding attentional processes and to design means for learning of attention.

Keywords : attention; cultivating attention; formative experience; participant observation.

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