A representação social do brincar para professores de uma escola Waldorf

Abstract

Playing is a theme very approached in relation to childhood and also very theorized by several authors. In this way, the present study tries to approach the theme of playing in the school context seen from the perspective of the teachers of a Waldorf school. This Pedagogy, created by Rudolf Steiner, is based on a larger comprehension of the human being, where education integrates the students' physical, spiritual, mental and artistic development. As the play permeates the daily life of children, the school also becomes a space for performing playful activities. Thus, we tried to understand how play is characterized, meaning and lived in this environment, from the point of view of those who are the mediators of children in school. The objectives of this research are: to understand and analyze the social representations of playing in the context of a Waldorf school; understand theoretically how the Waldorf pedagogical method approaches play and how it is present in the school analyzed; and define the constituent elements of playing in the same school. In order to reach the proposed objectives, three data collection instruments were used: interview, analysis of the Political Pedagogical Project and non-participant observation. The research was guided by the theoretical-methodological procedures related to the Theory of Social Representations, proposed by Moscovici (1978; 2003), since the objective is to find the social representation of play. The triangulation of the instruments made possible the interpretation through the analysis of content proposed by Bardin (2011) and four inseparable categories were found as constituents of the social representation of play: rhythm, integral development, imagination and nature.