SPACE WHERE TOYS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of this article is to verify how a type of spatial arrangement, the role-playing scenarios, in the early Early Childhood Education (ECE), impacts the play, enhancing development processes of preschoolers. The analysis was conducted based on studies of Historical-Cultural Psychology on play. For this theory play is the development activity guide the preschool child and the more the child knows the world and the relationships between people, the richer the imaginary situation created in jest. We carried out 15 play sessions with children under five years of a public school in ECE, where we build, together with them, several role-playing scenarios. The results indicate that the scenarios were constituted as support for the imaginary situation, extending it and enabling the development of new themes and the argument to the play. We also discuss how these changes may impact on developing training phase in preschoolers.