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that will be uses in fieldwork; seminar presentations and scientific events participations. The schedule of the intervention structure steps that will be executed in the
fieldwork are: starting activity, storytelling, free playing and final activity. Each stage
is planned by filling up a chart in which the activity description, the goal, possible
complications and the strategies to solve them must be included.
The interventions on the field happen weekly to facilitate the creation of links
between extension’s students and the institutions. They consist of theatricalised storytelling, games in group, activities and talks with professionals, children and those
accompanying them, when possible. In the fieldwork, besides the planned interventions, the students also have meetings with service professional, promote workshops
with recycled playthings and collect possible research information related to the
project.
The project’s main objective is to stimulate children and families in situations
of vulnerability through the use of playful activities in the institutions that assist
them. By working with different topics that encompass sustainability, recycling and
the redefinition of the use of some materials, a sustainable awareness in services,
territories, children and families may be created.
One of the prerequisites pointed by Rego (1990) is activities in group. According
to him:
The group work must be stimulated. For this purpose, it is always suggested to put together
students who have more knowledge and those who have more difficulties. Hence, some will
waste more time to execute the activities and learn. During this interaction and exchanges
of experiences among the students, there is something which must be avoided: the creation
and/or reinforcement of stereotypes of the students. An interesting suggestion is to change
the role of the “tutor” in different groups, as well as to vary the formation of the different
groups.
The university extension project, in its different contexts of application, provides
playfulness and creativity stimulation, illustrating in practice that is possible to transform any material into a plaything. Besides stimulating a sustainable consciousness
it also promotes the accessibility to play in vulnerable contexts where children live.
3 The Project’s Placement Contexts
The project makes its interventions in three institutions in the city of Santos: Irmandade Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Santos, Basic Health Unit of Embaré e Family
Support Center/Daycare center “Estrela Guia”.
At Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Santos, which is a hospital, the
project operates its activities at the Pediatric Oncology and Burns Section. Because
of the high risk of contaminations and infections involved in this areas, it is necessary
to wear safety face protection, to do the correct hand hygiene, and also to clean the
material that will be used for the storytelling. Therefore the resources employed must
be well-chosen, including materials that allow easy cleaning, better conservation and
hygiene, and they must also be resistant to the Quaternary Ammonium.
V. G. Assis da Silva et al.
that will be uses in fieldwork; seminar presentations and scientific events participations. The schedule of the intervention structure steps that will be executed in the
fieldwork are: starting activity, storytelling, free playing and final activity. Each stage
is planned by filling up a chart in which the activity description, the goal, possible
complications and the strategies to solve them must be included.
The interventions on the field happen weekly to facilitate the creation of links
between extension’s students and the institutions. They consist of theatricalised storytelling, games in group, activities and talks with professionals, children and those
accompanying them, when possible. In the fieldwork, besides the planned interventions, the students also have meetings with service professional, promote workshops
with recycled playthings and collect possible research information related to the
project.
The project’s main objective is to stimulate children and families in situations
of vulnerability through the use of playful activities in the institutions that assist
them. By working with different topics that encompass sustainability, recycling and
the redefinition of the use of some materials, a sustainable awareness in services,
territories, children and families may be created.
One of the prerequisites pointed by Rego (1990) is activities in group. According
to him:
The group work must be stimulated. For this purpose, it is always suggested to put together
students who have more knowledge and those who have more difficulties. Hence, some will
waste more time to execute the activities and learn. During this interaction and exchanges
of experiences among the students, there is something which must be avoided: the creation
and/or reinforcement of stereotypes of the students. An interesting suggestion is to change
the role of the “tutor” in different groups, as well as to vary the formation of the different
groups.
The university extension project, in its different contexts of application, provides
playfulness and creativity stimulation, illustrating in practice that is possible to transform any material into a plaything. Besides stimulating a sustainable consciousness
it also promotes the accessibility to play in vulnerable contexts where children live.
3 The Project’s Placement Contexts
The project makes its interventions in three institutions in the city of Santos: Irmandade Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Santos, Basic Health Unit of Embaré e Family
Support Center/Daycare center “Estrela Guia”.
At Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Santos, which is a hospital, the
project operates its activities at the Pediatric Oncology and Burns Section. Because
of the high risk of contaminations and infections involved in this areas, it is necessary
to wear safety face protection, to do the correct hand hygiene, and also to clean the
material that will be used for the storytelling. Therefore the resources employed must
be well-chosen, including materials that allow easy cleaning, better conservation and
hygiene, and they must also be resistant to the Quaternary Ammonium.