The appropriation of the spaces of Unified Educational Center (UEC) Butantã (in the city of São Paulo, Brazil) by children from 0 to 3 years and 11 months old

Abstract

This article aims to show how children from 0 to 3 years and 11 months old appropriate the different and multiple architectural spaces of the educational, sportive, and cultural complex through experiences and playing. While they play, discover, and appropriate the world around them, they perceive how social relationships happen and also expand their creative capacity. Spontaneous games, individual or collective, and directed games are present in the daily life of school, helping children to deal with various feelings, communicate with themselves and with others. The teacher’s work aims to plan, create strategies and conditions so that children feel instigated to learn in a meaningful way and in situations on which they can play an active role, developing skills and abilities that are necessary for the later years of their lives. The teachers use the curricular references and the mediation between the teacher, content and space is done through the exchange of experiences by peers. The methodology used the research was direct observation by the researcher, descriptive, allied to narrative maps at different times of the children’ routine in the Unified Educational Center (UEC), located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.