Enquadramentos e brincadeiras: um estudo etnográfico sobre os sistemas infantis na escola

Abstract

This dissertation is a work within the field of anthropology of education. This is an ethnography carried out in 2023, in an urban context, in Rio de Janeiro, in a public early childhood education school, with children who were around five years old. The anthropological categories of play relationships, rituals and frameworks were mobilized, which, together, proved to be a privileged analytical tool for reflecting on the symbolic aspects of children's interactions at school. In this way, play relationships were understood through three keys: i) exchange, ii) framing and iii) gender and sexuality, highlighting an amalgam of multifaceted and intertwined understanding that resulted in the category elaborated here: children's systems. Through this perspective, the main results demonstrate that the rituals that frame play relationships are composed of an apparent harmony woven from the most diverse disjunctions and conjunctions, such as play and non-play.