El Juego en tiempos de pandemia: significaciones imaginarias desde las voces de los niños y las niñas

Abstract

The objective of this research is to interpret the imaginary meanings about certain topics built from boys and girls side in pandemic times and its impact on the construction of its realities. The study was carried out with students between five and six years old, who are studying transition grade in Altamira Sur Oriental School, which is in San Cristóbal Sur locality in Bogota, Capital District.

In this sense, the imaginary meanings of play built from boys and girls side in pandemic times are the entire accumulation of meanings that constantly emerge in that new reality to which they were forced to live in. This involved focusing in a paradigm that allows inquiring about the realities, experiences, representations, preferences, likes, attachments, dislikes, pleasures, displeasures of each participant who contribute to this research.

For this reason, qualitative feature of this paradigm is needed with an interpretive approach, which allows the implementation of techniques and gathering information from daily work within the educational institution and even within the framework of the learn at home strategy, it means, from virtual, synchronous and asynchronous scenarios. The techniques used to gather the information are observation, focus group and workshops.

Thus, among the main findings, it is found that boys and girls missed being at school in person mainly because of the possibility of interaction that it allows them and that was violently interrupted by lockdown due to pandemic restrictions, which is because the game mediated by screens became stronger, despite returning to the classroom, with the gradual, progressive and safe reopening, as well as the entire process of the new reality continues to be an important part in the lives of the students participating in this research.