The Importance of Playing Activities: Narratives of Working and Non-Working Children

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Indira Caldas Cunha de
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Outros Autores: Francischini, Rosângela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/1179
• topic: Playing activities; Childhood; Socio-historical Psychology; Children’s labor; Development; Brincadeira; Infância; Psicologia sócio-histórica; Trabalho Infantil; Desenvolvimento

Among several aspects related to childhood, we have chosen to study the rights of the children to playing, which is considered an important activity for their development according to several theoretical perspectives in Psychology, such as the social-historic approach, which we have highlighted. Yet it is known that the benefits of such a right are not enjoyed by all children. Thus, in our research we intended to investigate how groups of children, who live upon different development conditions, have experienced the playing activities in their current daily life. The corpus of study was built by means of using Pinochio’s story applied to an interview, it is constituted by narratives of working and non-working children. We have investigated the presence and the importance of playing activities into these children’s daily life. The results show different ways through which each group experienced playing activities; children who work, unlike those who do not, did not mention spontaneously playing activities as taking part in their daily life. The differences between both groups might be understood as a consequence of the different socio-historical contexts in which they are included.