Measures of another gaze... About the materiality of the space of daycare centers and the constitution of a place for infants

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  • Luciane Pandini Simiano Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n93.2014

Keywords:

early childhood education, infants, space, place

Abstract

This article focuses on the configuration of the space of daycare centers as a place for babies. This is a research project with an ethnographic orientation, conducted in a public daycare center in the Southern part of Santa Catarina. The research focused on ten babies, four adults group, two teachers and two assistants. This research advocates for the importance of organizing the space for babies, because space educates, exposes ideas, and provides messages. The building, furniture, objects and their organization potentiate or hinder learning. It is necessary, however, to go beyond the materiality. It is essential to look, recognize, and value forms of use of space and the meanings developed between babies and adults. In the experiences in the time of meetings and breaks, spaces are constituted and constitutive. That is another form of looking about being and using a daycare center.

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Author Biography

Luciane Pandini Simiano, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

É doutoranda em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, mestre em Educação, Especialista em metodologia e prática interdisciplinar do ensino e possui graduação em pedagogia. Atualmente é professora da Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina e pesquisadora associada ao Grupo de Estudos em Educação Infantil - GEIN/UFRGS. Tem experiência na área de educação, com ênfase em educação infantil, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: educação infantil, educação de bebês, brinquedos e brincadeiras, brinquedoteca e formação de professores.

Published

2014-09-29

How to Cite

Simiano, L. P. (2014). Measures of another gaze... About the materiality of the space of daycare centers and the constitution of a place for infants. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22, 93. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n93.2014

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