Conta que eu conto: percepções de crianças sobre suas experiências de acolhimento

Abstract

The interest to investigate child cares services from the perception that the child has the physical and social dynamics of the institution has been gaining visibility in the area of Development Psychology. This interest caused the emergence in the scientific – academic context of the need to search the perspective of child in care from the systemic approach that considers the person in development as active being in their developmental trajectory. In this sense, the study aimed to investigate the perceptions of children about their experiences of care in the context of “storytelling" activities. For this, was used to collect data semi structured interviews with six children from a host institution in the metropolitan region of Belém. The interview was conducted along six "storytelling" activities. For each day of activity an interview script was developed so that the questions were made coherently with specific time of each story. Six fairy tales were used: "When I feel angry", "The Three Little Pigs", "The Ugly Duckling", "Where the wild things are", "Choco finds a mother” and “Everybody is happy". The activities were filmed and transcribed in full for content analysis. Was also used a characterization formulary of the children to relate data obtained from the storytelling activities. The main results demonstrate that children did not know about the real reasons that determined their host; the teachers are cited by the children with the main reference figures; activities outside the institution were cited by children as something that made them happy and activities with tales also appeared as something that aroused feelings of happiness. The children report also suggests that there is interaction between siblings in the institution. For questions related to family, children, in general, did not talk much about, were monosyllabic, when questioned more directly, but alluded to family situations spontaneously, from the plot of the stories. The working with fairy tales proved satisfactory, in those facilitated and encouraged children to express about their experiences at the host institution.