Abstract

BEZZON DA SILVA, Juliana  and  SOARES DA SILVA, Ana Paula. Experiences of children in the rural environment: similarities and differences in children's education. rev.latinoam.psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.45, n.3, pp.349-360. ISSN 0120-0534.  https://doi.org/10.14349/rlp.v45i3.1478.

Abstract Only recently, Brazil has consolidated the legal bases to bring in the environmental issues on the curriculum of the early childhood education. From this newness, accrues an absence of knowledge to base the educational practices. This paper intends to evidence the experiences of preschool children living in rural areas, specially focusing the way that they are signified and circumstanced by socioenvironmental characteristics of the investigated contexts. The methodological approach was inspired by ethnography in school contexts. In addition to the observation of collective activities in school and conversations and drawings with children, interviews were conducted with family members and school staff. Distances and approaches between the meanings of these participants were explored as a way to bring the necessaries tensions to understand the environmental issues in early childhood education.

Keywords : early childhood education; environmental education; rural; rural settlement; preschool children.

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