A humanização da infância: uma contribuição da literatura infantil

Abstract

This work is a bibliographical research that has as indicative theme the humanization of the childhood through the infantile literature, where works in the fields of the History, Literature, Psychology and Psychopedagogy were studied. He/she makes a parallel one between the humanity's childhood and the one of the man in relation to its humanization and that contributions the literature can give in that process. It defines what is culture, art and literature and which the paper that they possess in the humanity's evolution and of the man. It approaches aspects that show the as the infantile literature went and it will continue to be essential for the human being integral development, still in the childhood. Literature, that, that uses the resource of the wonderful as form of facilitating the child the discovery and the understanding of the world that the fence, what can be decisive in its integral formation. Literature that, of strategic form, it shows that the good and the badly, the right and the wrong trace a parallel one between the real world and the fictitious, approaching subjects concerning the injustice, of the relationships of power, of the exclusion, among other, in an attempt of rescuing the disposition for the practice of the good through the emotional growth. This work also exposes the contribution that the classic of the Infantile Literature provide to the child, in the search for its own humanization, that is indispensable value for the acceptance and respect to the difference. Desires and fears are fundamental for the preservation and the men's evolution, and the classic literature approaches those front themes, but implicit way, giving courage to the child to try to solve real situations without losing that that is indispensable to whole human being and that nobody can be entitled the of taking it, mainly of the childhood: the hope that in the end everything will give right.