Afetividade na educação infantil: contribuições da interação social para a constituição da pessoa

Abstract

This paper focuses on the affective aspect of social interaction as lived by children in pre-school classroom. For that, four five-year-old children were observed during eight days in a private school in the city of Recife, Brazil. The facts observed were registered in chronological order, and fieldnotes were taken and systematized according to previously established categories. Results show that the play time is one of the most important for affective expression, for it promotes the development of this aspect.