THE AFFECTATIONS OF STORY TELLING FOR THE SELF-ESTEEM FORMATION PROCESS OF BLACK CHILDREN
Self-esteem; Storytelling; Socio-Historical.
This study is linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education at the State University of
Rio Grande do Norte and is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of
Socio-Historical Psychology, which has its genesis in historical-dialectic materialism. The
starting question is: What are the effects of storytelling on the process of forming black
children's self-esteem? Thus, its general objective is to: Identify the effects of storytelling
on the process of forming self-esteem in black children. The research locus is a public
school in the city of Mossoró/RN. The research subjects are: four children in the 2nd year
of the initial years. In the research construction procedure, participant observation and
conversation circles mediated by story telling were used to produce information; for the
analysis and interpretation of information, it proposes the cores of meaning. The selected
categories of analysis are: affectivity, mediation, thought and language, historicity and
senses and meanings. The research results include the affects identified through story
telling in the speech of the children in the research. Such results are organized and
synthesized into three cores of meaning: 1) Liking and interpreting the story: from the
taste for children's books to the identification with the characters in the story Pretty Girl
with a Ribbon Bow; 2) Non-recognition of being black: white does not match black,
black is ugly; 3) Affective relationships between different people: forms of treatment and
coping. This investigation is relevant and brings contributions to discussions about the
meanings of the subject, the impact of storytelling on children's lives, the process of
forming black children's self-esteem and, finally, research that gives children a voice. ,
considering them as research subjects.