Infâncias ribeirinhas no contexto de brincares e praticas corporais nas marés de rios da Amazônia amapaense

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on riverine childhoods in the community of Igarapé da Fortaleza, located in the Amazon region, close to the capital Macapá, in the State of Amapá. This territory is part of the Brazilian Amazon forest, a space of natural wealth and diversity of flora and fauna. According to IBGE data (2010), the child population was 1398 children and adolescents between zero to 14 years old. The main objective of the research was to analyze children's speeches about playing in the Igarapé tides and their body practices in the community of Igarapé da Fortaleza. The research assumes the perspective of Education that there are multi-diversities of childhoods between field, beach, riverine and urban contexts. Children are creative people who experience their childhood playing in dialogue with nature and experience children's cultures when playing fishing, flour production, bathing in the river, making a fan, and experiencing the local tradition of the São Benedito e Marujada of Bragança parties. For this, the method of historical-dialectical materialism, qualitative research approach, and content analysis were used to generate the data. The method sought to dialogue with categories such as playing and social emancipation and work as an educational principle. It is a territory where children share their life experiences. The participants were 14 children aged between 9 and 12 years old, born and living in the community of Igarapé da Fortaleza. The results revealed that bodily practices mostly developed in the games are soccer, practiced on the border of the river at the ebb of the tide, dodgeball, and the tag, in and out of the water. Still, it was inferred that the childhoods of the riverine community are intrinsically linked to their bodily practices and play, as well as children's experiences in the riverine universe. The research inferred that playing in the tides develops many skills in children as they learn to swim in the waters alone, developing fine and gross motor coordination, agility when playing tag jumping off the boats, disappearing, and appearing to deceive the colleague who is trying to catch each other. They socialize by playing soccer on the ebb tide and balance on bridges while playing. They develop creativity and socialization of learning among themselves and build affective relationships. They bathe in the river, jump off bridges, and sulk when they lose at the game. They look forward to it, so much the ebb and flow of the tide, it's important to jump off the bridge and boats into the river and play soccer. Both in soccer and dodgeball, children have many skills, they use nicknames, make fun of each other, cry, laugh, joke, rejoice in achievements, and get angry when they lose.