Geração, infância e brincadeira na urbanização da cidade de Paulo Afonso-BA

Abstract

This final paper records the results of a descriptive, non-experimental, data collection study that involved people from different generations to investigate the games and activities played by children in the city of Paulo Afonso-BA, in different historical contexts, reflecting on their relationship with urbanization and the historical context of the city, its transformations and changes. The research involved 13 (thirteen) residents of the city, directly or indirectly linked to the São Francisco Hydroelectric Company (CHESF): grandfathers, grandmothers, fathers, mothers and children; members of 7 (seven) families, with one or more members working for the company. This was a field study that included several generations, who have different relationships with the history of CHESF and the urbanization process of Paulo Afonso. All families live in the neighborhood currently called Alves de Souza “CHESF”, where the author of this work also lives, taken as the locus of the research. We adopted semi-structured interview techniques (individual and group) and participant observation. The instruments were: interview script and field notebook. We had the following materials: voice recorder and stationery. As a result, we concluded that games will always exist, regardless of how they are implemented, and that they continue to be part of children's lives, although not to the same extVó Lias before, making explicit the importance of games and play and how they were carried out in previous generations, and the changes resulting from their transformations.