Percepções de professores da educação infantil sobre o brincar com base em entrevistas recorrentes

Abstract

Through verbal interactions, researchers can access a subject's beliefs, perceptions, conceptions, and expectations regarding a specific topic. A methodological strategy to access this information can be through the recurring interview. In this procedure, the interview transcript is presented to the interviewee, who has the opportunity to explain, modify, and delve deeper into the topics addressed in previous interviews. Based on this, the objective of the presented research is to analyze the use of the recurring interview based on reports from early childhood education teachers about play, understanding whether the second interview provided gains in terms of data collection and analysis. Nine teachers from Municipal Early Childhood Education Schools in a city in the interior of São Paulo participated in the research. Thus, a semi-structured interview script was developed, with open-ended questions addressing the conceptions of early childhood education teachers regarding play. Both interviews were transcribed and analyzed based on content analysis. The interview procedure used allowed participants to explain/elaborate and modify statements provided in the first interview. In this sense, overall, it was possible to observe progress from the first to the second interview. Results like these suggest that the recurring interview can be a relevant procedure for research in the field of education.