STORY TELLING IN THE SELF-KNOWLEDGE PROCESS: EVERY STORY DESERVES TO BE TOLD

Abstract

With the reality of a pandemic world, it is impossible to deny the reflexes and negative consequences in the educational context, with regard to the use of playfulness in classes that have become totally virtual, where it is only possible to see faces on a computer screen. It was possible to perceive the closeness of the family in social isolation intensifying, the routine being modified to protect everyone's health. Storytelling as a playful activity arouses curiosity, imagination, develops thinking and autonomy, as well as providing the possibility to express emotions and resolve conflicts. The project, described here, assumes that storytelling in a playful way can reconnect students to their own history, to their identity, exploring the proximity with their families from family photos, transmuting the monotonous remote teaching into a playful and more interactive class, with the objective of creating new methods and means that favor the acquisition of knowledge in distance learning, aiming to introduce them effectively, using play as a strategy to provide significant learning in the area of ​​languages . In this way, the work contributes to the encouragement of active and creative methodologies, relating the report of individual experiences to cultural exchange and recognition of the roots of each student, promoting interdisciplinarity, cognitive and social development, and combining the work developed at the University to the community in order to assist it in guidelines and activities that adapt to new times and help to innovate the school environment.