A criança tímida: desafios e caminhos de superação

Abstract

This work aim to understand the shy child, recognizing their challenges and their ways of overcoming, showing their importance to the educator’s job. The theoretical grounding is initiated by the authors Charlot and Rogers, whose prepared the way, setting the opening of the human being to the “learn to be” and the educator’s spot in this adventure, in favor for the development of the student’s sociability. Jacob Levy Moreno, father of the psychodrama and his theory of identity matrix and construction of roles, help, focusing the develop socio-emotional of the child and the search for personal and social spontaneitycreation lived. The specify studies about shyness or social withdrawal, focusing on the specialists Monjas and Caballo, whose therapeutic work on the identification and explicitness of behaviors, call attention about the importance of working together between educators and parents, in preventive actions. The authors provide evaluation procedures and proposal that favor the shy overcome. It also shows as a pilot study, such as initial quality research, realized with four child’s educational teachers that were solicited to answer to five questions in an interview mode. The field data shows the importance of knowing the context of the child life, the cultivation of ties and stimulatory actions to promote their socio-emotional development, in what is confirmed by theoretical studies