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A meditação como forma de promover as relações de amizade entre as crianças
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A infância é uma fase privilegiada de aprendizagem onde é desejável que o educador estimule as crianças para que se sintam motivadas para aprender a aprender. Para isso, é necessário que as crianças estejam confortáveis no seu ambiente educativo e na realização de atividades em grupo, o que só é possível se forem fomentadas relações de amizade entre os colegas/pares.
É importante que as crianças se sintam bem consigo próprias para que se possam relacionar bem com os outros e é por isso que acreditamos que a meditação pode ser uma ferramenta útil, uma vez que é uma prática simples e eficaz que promove a saúde, o bem-estar e ajuda no processo de socialização e aceitação do outro.
Este estudo advém de uma curiosidade pessoal sobre a prática da meditação e sobre os efeitos que poderá originar nas crianças em idade pré-escolar. Foi desenvolvido com um grupo de crianças de 5 anos, numa Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social (IPSS), no concelho de Olhão, Algarve. O nosso principal objetivo foi verificar de que forma a meditação em grupo influenciava as relações (de amizade) entre as crianças. Neste estudo, de carácter essencialmente qualitativo, aplicámos inicialmente um teste sociométrico para selecionar as 3 crianças sobre as quais recaiu o estudo. Após a implementação de estratégias e de atividades específicas junto do grupo foi aplicado o mesmo teste sociométrico, o que nos permitiu perceber que se verificaram alterações nas relações de amizade entre as crianças. Os dados de que dispomos parecem indicar que as sessões de meditação, complementadas com a pintura de mandalas e o desenvolvimento de um jogo centrado no tema dos afetos, terão contribuído para melhorar as relações de amizade entre as crianças.
Childhood is a privilege place of learning where it is desirable that the educator stimulate the children’s so they can feel compelled and motivated to learn how to learn. For that it is necessary that the children feel’s comfortable in their education environment and in the achievement of group activities, which is only possible if they are fomented to build relations between the colleagues/their pairs. It is important that the children feel’s good with themselves so they can have a good relation with the others and that is why we believe that meditation can be a useful tool, because it is a simple and effective practice which promotes wellbeing, health and acceptance for and from the other. This study comes from a personal curiosity about the practice of meditation and about the effects that can originate in the children in the preschool age. It was developed with a 5 years group in a Social Solidarity Private Institution (SSPI) in the country of Olhão in Algarve. Our main goal was to verify in which way the group meditation could influence the relations of friendship between the children, essentially qualitative character, applying an initially a sociometric test, to select 3 children which ones the study fells in. After the implementation of strategies and specific activities within the group it was applied the same sociometric test, which allows us to understand in there was any changes in the friendship relations between the childrens. The data that we have seems to indicate that the meditation sessions, joined with mandala paintings and the development of a game focused in the theme of affections have contributed to improve the relations of friendship between the children.
Childhood is a privilege place of learning where it is desirable that the educator stimulate the children’s so they can feel compelled and motivated to learn how to learn. For that it is necessary that the children feel’s comfortable in their education environment and in the achievement of group activities, which is only possible if they are fomented to build relations between the colleagues/their pairs. It is important that the children feel’s good with themselves so they can have a good relation with the others and that is why we believe that meditation can be a useful tool, because it is a simple and effective practice which promotes wellbeing, health and acceptance for and from the other. This study comes from a personal curiosity about the practice of meditation and about the effects that can originate in the children in the preschool age. It was developed with a 5 years group in a Social Solidarity Private Institution (SSPI) in the country of Olhão in Algarve. Our main goal was to verify in which way the group meditation could influence the relations of friendship between the children, essentially qualitative character, applying an initially a sociometric test, to select 3 children which ones the study fells in. After the implementation of strategies and specific activities within the group it was applied the same sociometric test, which allows us to understand in there was any changes in the friendship relations between the childrens. The data that we have seems to indicate that the meditation sessions, joined with mandala paintings and the development of a game focused in the theme of affections have contributed to improve the relations of friendship between the children.
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Dissertação de Mestrado, Educação Pré-Escolar, Escola Superior de Educação e Comunicação, Universidade do Algarve, 2016
Keywords
Meditação Amizade Bem-estar Educação pré-escolar Meditation Friendship Wellbeing Preschool education