Banca de DEFESA: ALANA MADEIRO DE MELO BARBOZA

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STUDENT : ALANA MADEIRO DE MELO BARBOZA
DATE: 29/03/2021
TIME: 10:30
LOCAL: Webconferência
TITLE:

Culture And Playing With Children from Maceió: A Study From Winnicottian Concepts

KEY WORDS:

Childhood. Playing. Playful Workshops. Culture. Winnicott.

PAGES: 166
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Psicologia
SUMMARY:

The idea of childhood in this work is based on the individual’s potential and creativity, and
is based on the notion of child as an active and real person. Donald Winnicott considers
play as fundamental and constitutive of childhood and presents play as a facilitator of
development, communication and social relations. Thus, based on Winnicott's
psychoanalytic theory, this study aims to investigate and analyze the relationship
between culture and child play. And as specific objectives to discuss, reflect and analyze
the culture expressed in the play and games of children livin in a lagoon community. This
research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Alagoas.
This is a qualitative action research, which took place in a philanthropic kindergarten
school, and had as participants 20 children aged between 5 to 6 years. Six workshops
were held, and the following themes were addressed in them: playing, games, friendship,
family, place where they live, culture and creativity. In these workshops, there were
playful moments and the use of field diaries and the Thematic Drawing-Story procedure.
To analyze the collected material, the Content Analysis technique was used. As results, it
was possible to observe an expanded notion of family, with the presence of relatives
beyond the family nucleus, containing father, mother, uncles and aunts, brothers and
sisters, grandparents, cousins, friends and pets. Racial, economic and gender issues
were also noticed. In addition, the presence of characteristics related to the community,
such as the strong presence of the lagoon, were present during the workshops and the
children showed creativity in the moments of playing. The data enabled the elaboration of
four thematic categories, they were: 1. Family, with issues related to endogenous
integrating relationships, protection, aggression and conflict, as well as figures of the
nuclear and extended family, and issues of gender, race and religion; 2. Arts, in which
questions about music, cinema, creation and literature were discussed; 3. Local context,
it was discussed about community environments, exogenous relationships, aggression /
violence, religion and the presence of nature and animals; and 4. Welcoming research
space, reflected on the representation of the workshops as welcoming, as well as the
creative possibilities and exogenous relationships. Given the discussions between the
data and the theory adopted as the basis for this research, it can be concluded that
creative play can cause a subversion of rules and socially imposed roles, as well as the
elaboration and contact with the most diverse cultural experiences. According to
Winnicott's theory, the results pointed to culture as something that is not static, being a
relationship of mutual constitution between individuals and the culture in which they find
themselves in, as demonstrated in the creative possibilities observed in children's play.
The play would be a way of entering the culture, a factor of assimilation of the cultural

elements, since the ludic practice allows the appropriation of cultural codes, and also has
a crucial importance in the socialization process. It also points out the importance that the
family has, not only for development, but for contact with culture’s objects. It was
observed that playing as a form of communication is supported by the method beyond
the traditional clinic and respect for the space and the children's speeches proved to be
crucial for the good development and result of the workshops' intervention.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - LEILA SALOMÃO DE LA PLATA CURY TARDIVO - USP
Externo à Instituição - RUI ALEXANDRE PAQUETE PAIXÃO - UC
Externa ao Programa - 1120885 - HELIANE DE ALMEIDA LINS LEITAO
Presidente - 2206282 - PAULA ORCHIUCCI MIURA