INFANT MEDIATIC SOCALIZATION, MATERIALITY AND PRACTICE: THE ICTs ROLE IN THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESSES OF CHILDREN AGES 5 to 6

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the role of materiality in the teaching practice structuration of an educational institution and in the socialization process of children who attend to the institution aforementioned. Methodology: qualitative research based on case studies. Intervention proposals and an observation matrix were applied for the data collection process. Findings: Infants have a clear socialization not only with human beings but also with other kinds of beings, which includes material aspects. Conclusions: exists a reconfiguration in the traditional classroom lecture method bounded to aspects related to the reconfiguration of the space (visual, acoustic and corporal). About the infants’ mediatic socialization processes within the context of the teaching practices in the classroom, three considerations are achieved: the need to inquire in the children’s experience with the use of technology, the importance of the materiality in education and the materiality of the technologies which play a determinant role in the practical know-how of different social groups.