The exploratory approach as a way of learning in childhood

Authors

• ROCHELE Maciel Universidade de Caxias do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4524-399X
• Monica Guerra Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3160-7206

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17058/rea.34.20531

Keywords:

learning, exploratory-learning, childhood, Educational processes

Abstract

The study proposes a discussion about the relevance of exploration in pedagogical practices carried out with children. The methodology proposed in this study is a bibliographic review based on authors such as Monica Guerra and John Dewey. We understand that one of the objectives of education is to make people more autonomous, promoting a transforming action in the lives of subjects. Children have their own characteristics in relation to motor, social, cognitive and affective development, because each one has a way, a way of acting, thinking, expressing themselves, moving and interacting with the environment. in which they live. Although they are explorers by nature, they need an adult, an educator, who understands contemporary early childhood education, in order to promote their creative potential, accompanying children to explore, discover, establish relationships and experience different situations to which they may not be accustomed. in everyday life. The need to mediate learning gives birth to children's relationship with knowledge, which simultaneously involves the acquisition of knowledge and the construction of individual and social identity, so that children are involved in the teaching and learning process.