O sr. Dragão e sua mala mágica: a literatura como acolhimento para a transição da educação infantil para o ensino fundamental

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the process of transition and reception of students from Early Childhood Education to Elementary School, in a 1st year classroom of the 1st Cycle of Elementary School, in a school of Belo Horizonte’s Municipal Education System. This transition often presents itself as a moment of ruptures and challenges experienced by children in this context. Thus, the focus of this research was to deal with the reception of these Early Childhood Education’s newcomers. Based on the construction of a literary intervention, the use of Literature was analysed as an instrument of reception for children inserted in this new school culture of Primary Education. Therefore, this Action Plan, from the creation of a Magic Bag and an enchanted character, Mr. Dragon, articulated the ludic, a play anf the enchantment, through the literary mediation, as a way to experience the transition between the two segments of education. The idealization of the literary experience, as well as its application, took place during the first semester of the school year. The methodological approach used was of qualitative nature, since much of the analysis depended on observation and the practice of intervention in the classroom. These interventions were usually organized into reading circles and subsequent rounds of conversations, which were recorded through video and audio recordings, in addition to registering notes in the in order to capture the interactions between the children, the Magic Bag and Mr. Dragon. From the data analysis, it was possible to see how literary mediation provides several connections, including opening up spaces for dialogue and exchange of experiences among children, enabling the articulation of a healthy transition from Early Childhood Education to Elementary School.