Baby's free play in daycare: subjective processes and development
Baby; free play; development; subjectivity; daycare
This study aims to understand the baby's free play experience in day care, from a subjectivity perspective, in order to generate intelligibility about the subjective processes involved in this experience, which may favor the baby's development. The Theory of Subjectivity by González Rey provides the theoretical assumptions for this research, which was carried out in Centro Educacional da Primeira Infância no Distrito Federal (CEPI). The research brings discussions about concepts of theory and epistemology, and articulates them with questions about educational approaches and methods of Early Childhood Education. It brings a new perspective on the baby's development and on his free and autonomous play, as an experience that can open new paths of subjectivation. The methodological challenge was faced with the approach of Qualitative Epistemology, which, for the study of subjectivity, rescues the subject in the research, and is characterized by the dialogic and constructiveinterpretative character of knowledge. Thus, it is with the Constructive-Interpretive Methodology that the construction of knowledge is elaborated, based on indicators and hypotheses, which evidence subjective processes in babies, who in this research are active participants.