Entrou por uma porta e saiu pela outra, quem quiser que conte outra!: a prática da contação de histórias na Educação Infantil como estratégia para auxiliar o desenvolvimento da criança

Abstract

The practice of storytelling is something that pervades action as antiquity. This practice has been consolidated in the formal and informal means of education, since it is an action that, besides providing moments of delight and pleasure, is also an ally to help in the social, cognitive, psychological and affective development of the child, collaborating for the development of the systems as an orality and reading. Taking these considerations, from the thought of Walter Benjamin, Richard Bamberger, Betty Coelho, among other authors, a case study was conducted through interviews with teachers of Early Childhood Education at a public school in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza. seeking to understand and ascertain how the teacher looks about this practice and if is being really used to assist in the development of children in early childhood education. In our final remarks we could see that the teaching practice regarding the use of storytelling as mediation for the development of the child in its emotional, psychological, cognitive and social aspects is a requirement that still needs to be understood by teachers.