Concepção de crianças de 4 a 6 anos sobre o consumo de água: uma abordagem baseada no método clínico

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Luciana Martiniano
• Orientador(a): Barreto, Maria de Lourdes Mattos
• Banca de defesa: Mello, Rita Márcia Andrade Vaz de , Bartolomeu, Tereza Angélica
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Economia Doméstica
• Departamento: Economia familiar; Estudo da família; Teoria econômica e Educação do consumidor
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Crianças; Desenvolvimento; Consumo de água; Educação infantil; Método clínico; Percepção em crianças
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Children; Development; Water consumption; Child education; Clinical method; Perception in children
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3299

Currently there is a preoccupation about the practices of consumption and is getting bigger the interest in relation to environmental issues; many organs, institutions and researchers develop work concerned with the environment worldwide. One of the natural resources that this concern is target of environmentalists and governments is the water. Element essential to human life, water is used in abundance by many of the companies. It is a natural resource of economic, strategic and social value and it is essential to the existence and welfare of mankind and to the maintenance of ecosystems on the planet. On that way, this research is important to build an instrument for identifying the design of children on the water as a natural resource based on the clinical method piagetiano. The questions that guided the study were: What kind of instrument identifies the construction of social knowledge about natural resources in order to allow us to work the education for the consumption and environmental education to children of kindergarten? What is the conception of children from 4 to 6 years of age on water as a resource environment? As theoretical reference, it was used the theory piagetiana, focusing on the process of building the knowledge, development and learning and knowledge society. And as reasoning is also highlighted education for consumption, environmental education and clinical method piagetiano. Clinical interviews were conducted at Laboratório de Desenvolvimento Humano (LDH) of the UFV, with two groups of children from 4 to 6 years of age. In the analysis of the data we can see the conception of these children on the rise, the use, the destination and use of water as a natural resource, using categories of analysis established in accordance with studies of Piaget. According to the results were found three levels of understanding of the subject studied and in the construction of these representations children are not limited to just reproduce the information they receive about the environment, but they re-draw up it, with their particular understanding about the social world. A tool for identifying the design of children on the water as a natural resource was built during the search, providing a roadmap of material and concrete interview, made of chips of pictures that bring children to situations and problem-situations on the issue of water. The work helped to show the importance of knowing what children think about the issue so that the institutions of early childhood education and other school levels developed significant work in that regard, considering many possibilities of understanding of each child, depending on their age and their mind.