Jogo e educa????o infantil: contribui????es da hermen??utica filos??fica de Gadamer

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar como o jogo, entendido a partir da Hermen??utica Filos??fica de Hans-Georg Gadamer, pode contribuir no processo de forma????o da crian??a na Educa????o Infantil. Para isso foi necess??rio problematizar a pr??tica pedag??gica das professoras da Creche Mimosa, inserindo-me num processo dial??gico de reflex??o e a????o que resultasse na constru????o coletiva de uma concep????o de jogo capaz de contribuir para qualificar o processo educacional por elas desenvolvido. A metodologia utilizada sugere uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada a partir de observa????es e entrevistas como forma de coletar o maior n??mero de dados e informa????es que pudessem contribuir para an??lise e interpreta????o dos resultados. O principal material de an??lise, al??m das observa????es, s??o as narrativas das professoras a respeito de suas concep????es do jogo na a????o pedag??gica com crian??as. A Hermen??utica Filos??fica de Gadamer ?? o referencial te??rico utilizado pela pesquisa no que se refere ?? explica????o ontol??gica do jogo como fio condutor da forma????o humana. A an??lise dos dados demonstra a necessidade de um cont??nuo pensar no processo da Educa????o Infantil sobre a import??ncia do jogo para a forma????o da crian??a. Al??m disso, comprova que a dimens??o humana do jogo, conforme o pensamento gadameriano, contribui para qualificar o trabalho docente com as crian??as numa a????o humanizadora, de respeito ?? crian??a, enquanto ser de rela????es em busca de desvendar o mundo.This research aims to investigate how games, analyzed from Hans-Georg Gadamer??s Philosophic Hermeneutics point of view, can contribute to child upbringing in Child Education. For such the pedagogic practice of Child Education teachers at the Mimosa Day Care Center was discussed with the participation of a researcher and through a reflective and active dialogical process that could lead to the collective building of a game conception which enabled the qualification of the educational process developed by these teachers. The methodology used suggests a qualitative piece of research which was done by observation and interviews in order to collect as many data and pieces of information as possible to subsidize the analysis and interpretation of results. The main material for this analysis, besides observation, was made up of the teachers accounts of their game conceptions in the pedagogic action with the children. Gadamer??s Philosophic Hermeneutics served as the theoretical basis for this research as to the ontological explanation of the game as a conducting wire in human education. Data analysis demonstrates the need for a continuous reflection on the importance of games in child upbringing. Also, it proves that the human dimension of games, according to Gadamer, adds to the qualification of the teaching staff??s work with children by means of a humanizing action of respect towards them, and in their relation in the search for world disclosure