The research group Human Development and Education - Grudhe - focuses on the development of children in kindergarten and in the first years of elementary school. Based on a socio-historical framework, we seek to study how children learn concepts from their daily interactions at school. Our studies began in 2009, with research on the development of temporal concepts in kindergarten that included an intervention program with teachers and children (2008-2009). After that, our studies have expanded to include the first years of elementary education, focusing on developing an instrument for evaluating the temporal knowledge of children. We also had an intervention program for teachers and children, which was evaluated with pre-and post-tests (2010-2011). Parallel to that, we developed a study in collaboration with Vasconcellos and Daiute (2012) that focused on the concepts of slum, community, and risk among early education teachers working in schools located in areas of risk.
cognition and language; concept learning; temporal concepts; early childhood education; elementary education