Banca de DEFESA: KETTY CLAUDIA NEVES DO AMARAL

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : KETTY CLAUDIA NEVES DO AMARAL
DATE: 12/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

STORYTELLING PRACTICES AT THE SCHOOL OF EARLY EARLY EDUCATION AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: REFLECTIONS ABOUT TWO YOUTUBE CHANNELS

KEY WORDS:

Early Childhood Education; COVID-19 pandemic; Historical-Cultural Theory;
Storytelling on YouTube.

PAGES: 171
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The present work was developed in the master's program in Education at the Federal University
of São João Del Rei, MG. The work is associated to the Center of Respect for Children and
their Learning (CRIA) Study and Research Group, and it is related to another interinstitutional
research entitled Reading and Pedagogical Practices at Early Childhood Schools in Times of
Pandemic: tutoring action for online and in-person teaching and learning, financed by CAPES.
Some questions motivated the study: how was storytelling carried out and/or proposed in
pedagogical practices in Early Childhood Education during the period of social isolation caused
by the Coronavirus? Some questions drove the study: how was storytelling carried out and/or
proposed in pedagogical practices in early childhood education (Pre-K) during the period of
social isolation caused by the Coronavirus? How were YouTube storytelling channels planned
and what do they reveal for the literary development of teachers and children? Therefore, it
aims to analyze storytelling in a digital environment and recognize whether this resource can
contribute to pedagogical practices of literary tutoring. To fulfill this purpose, qualitative

research was chosen. As theoretical framework, it is based on the perspectives of Historical-
Cultural Theory and authors who dedicate themselves to studies on storytelling and narratives

in a digital environment. As methodological procedures, we carried out bibliographical research
in virtual databases about storytelling in Early Childhood Education and, in the digital
environment, the study of two storytelling channels on YouTube and the analysis of two
questionnaire replies that belongs to the interinstitutional research, to analyze the data produced
from the responses of pre-K teachers. It could be verified from the research that the art of telling
stories is part of the pedagogical planning, child development and brings contributions to the
human formation of babies and young children. It is a practice that contributes to particularities
that are interconnected during childhood such as listening, attention, perception and memory.
The study and the observation of the story channels on YouTube allowed us to understand this
literary/digital environment, its organization and how the relationship between narrators and
listeners occur. There are storytelling channels on YouTube that have approximately fifteen
million viewers, including Early Childhood Education teachers, who indicates to uses stories
in their teaching practices. In order to become a storyteller, this has required some teachers to
search for resources that can assist them in this literary practice. However, the COVID-19
Pandemic has intensified this search and brought implications that involve the right of children
to have access to literary narrative, even if it is in digital format. From the reports obtained,
which constitute the participation of Early Childhood Education teachers in the questionnaire,
we identified that the stories that were told in person by teachers gained new formats, through
digital resources. The story videos, YouTube channels, as well as the use of resources during
the narrative, included literary practices related to storytelling during the COVID-19 pandemic,
in remote teaching. It is based on the defense that Early Childhood Education institutions play
a fundamental role in the process of forming literary knowledge in/for/with children and that
storytelling is part of this process. It also considers such processes (the formation of literary
knowledge and storytelling) fundamental for the human development of babies and young
children.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1005053 - AMANDA VALIENGO
Externa à Instituição - ELIEUZA APARECIDA DE LIMA - UNESP
Interna - 1999919 - GIOVANA SCARELI