A contação de histórias na Educação Infantil

Abstract

The work has as its central theme the importance of storytelling in Early Childhood Education and is organized as follows: the context for choosing the object is exposed in the memorial, based on my experience as an intern. The methodology presents the bibliographic survey procedure. In the theoretical framework, I talk to the references trying to answer the main question-problem which is “What is the importance of storytelling for children in Early Childhood Education?” and the questions arising from this, which constitute the specific objectives: discover the reasons for telling stories to children in Early Childhood Education; discover how the teacher should choose the stories and understand the importance of retelling or recreating stories by children. The results indicate that through storytelling, the child embarks on an adventure, placing herself/himself in it at the same time as a spectator and as an actor, especially at the time of the retelling made by the child, when she/he develops her/his own understandings and perceptions of reality. Storytelling can broaden the meanings of situations experienced by the child, access to cultures and help teachers to get to know the narrative pluralities that children bring to school contexts.