Didactic book: contradictions to imagination's development of preeschoolers

Abstract

Imbued of contradictions, the National Book and Didactic Material Program public notice (PNLD) 2022 organized pedagogical orientations to didactic book elaboration for the use of preschoolers of the public system in Brazil. In addition to disowning the first stage of basic education specificity, the public notice seeks to validate the anticipation of alphabetical instruction to small children. This prematureness present risks to psych development of preschoolers, especially regarding the imagination, as a superior psychological function. Therefore, by the PNLD 2022 public notice analysis in addition to the didactic book originated from it and collated with the uniqueness of the preschooler’s psych development under the assumptions of Historical-Cultural Theory we intended to answer: What are the risks of uptake the didactical book for preschooler’s imagination development? The criterial to choose the book were the uptaking index for the municipality of Londrina/PR. The results indicated the objectification of the pedagogical criterial attended by the public notice, assuming the anticipation of alphabetical instruction and improperly prioritizing issues of literacy and numeracy. The pedagogical propositions are purely technical, limited and inadequately in terms of visual and enunciation quality, apart from children’s reality. Besides, considering the assumptions to imagination’s development, the pictures and the situations presented in the book only reinforces stereotypes and do not provides nor increase cultural repertoire, which its needed to originates and develop this superior psychological function.