| Resumo: | The current investigation is inserted in the scope of the Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES) Masters for the Preschool Educational Teaching, regarding a group of 20 four year olds in Lisbon's private network. In kindergarten children have the opportunity to broaden their social world, as the interaction with one another contributes for the social and emotional development. With this in mind, the selection and implementation of educational practices, that are likely to influence social group relations and to improve self-concept, became the main goal for this paper. The strategies involved included cooperative work (in pairs and in small groups), choosing working groups, the children’s incentive, their positive reinforcement and the appreciation of positive interdependence. The investigation is based on an investigation-action design, in an interpretative perspective. As qualitative predominant methodology, the Sociometric Test, the Pictorial Perception Scale of Social Competence and Acceptance for Pre Education Aged Children, the participant observation, the photographic records, the field notes and the weekly internship reports, where applied. The study develops throughout 3 phases: the pre intervention, the intervention and the post intervention. In the intervention cooperative activities where made in small groups or in pairs, in which the members of each working group were chosen on purpose, bearing in mind their sociometric position inside the big group. At the end of each activity, each small group would make its own self and the other group’s evaluation, so they could reflect up about the importance of each group member contribution, of how the work was made and how to improve it. During these moments the adult would positively reinforce and value the positive observed interdependence. The results show the importance of selecting adequate strategies such as the cooperative work, the appreciation and the positive reinforcement to promote the positive interdependence and consequently to positively influence the group interactions and self-concept. |
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