A organização do ambiente educativo e a aprendizagem

Abstract

Human development is a complex process of interactivity between the subject and the environment, in influence and mutual enrichment. In this room balancing process, where learning anchor the development, highlights the decisive role of proximal processes, while promoters of development and individual learning. These processes can realise-ifself in the environment where the individual interacts with others, develop their skills and personality, learns to do and to be. the environment becomes so crucial in the context of individual learning and development. In kindergarten, the learning environment and organisation, presents itself, therefore, as the determining factor of the anchor and genesis of proximal processes of personal and social development of children. This reflection, so the role of equate organisation of educational environment in the context of the kindergarten as a factor in learning and child development, framing such organization on educational and pedagogical context of 'Project Methodology' and learning cooperative, while supporting structures. Being a reflection on my educational actions, developed over the course of twenty-three years as an educator of children, the work begins by framing the key concepts fundamentadores theoretically the same, namely development, cooperative learning and environmental education organization, and then be based on more specific reflection on the role and organization of the educational environment, while learning and development factor. The projects developed with children, are a reflection of educational principles theoretically exposed, corollaries of an entire educational intent, based on bioecological development and perspective on the principles of cooperative learning and in the assumptions of the curricular guidelines for pre-school education.

Date of Award	17 Jun 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria Raul Xavier (Supervisor)