Abstract

LUCENA, Juliana Maria Ferreira de; AMORIM, Katia de Souza  and  PEDROSA, Maria Isabel. Cultural Learning by Two-Year-Old Children in Play Group. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.3, pp. 1087-1107. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.62712.

This paper discusses the cultural learning of two-year-old children of their social environment, examining, from a socio-interactionist perspective, the way they participate in play activities that take place in the peer group. Twenty children were observed twice a week, for forty-five days, totaling 11 video-recorded sessions, each one lasting 24 minutes on average. They played freely in spaces of a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education, in Recife. Fifty-six episodes of play activity were identified and transcribed. Qualitative analysis shows that children bring knowledge produced in different social environments (macroculture) to the situation of interaction with their peers (microculture). Knowledge of popular culture was inferred from behaviors observed by featuring maracatu and a capoeira performance. The protagonism of children indicates that conventions and rules are respected and shared, which guarantees the negotiation of meanings and the transmission of culture, even among children at their earlier ages. Imitation, complementary, and cooperative actions seem to contribute to the maintenance and reconstruction of knowledge with peers. The importance of providing a collective context of development is underlined to encourage the participation of children in the assimilation and construction of the group's microculture.

Keywords : child; culture; playing behavior.

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