PLAYING AT SCHOOL: RELATION BETWEEN LEISURE AND MEDIA IN CHILDREN´S UNIVERSE

Abstract

Media has established itself as a strong component of the reality in contemporary society. In this sense, there is a growing interest in the analysis of how media issues in?uences children´s universe. From this perspective, this study aims to investigate and analyze the presence of the media at school by observing the body behavior in children’s movements. An interactive observation at a public children school in Brasilia was methodologically used. As a result, it was found that there is a cultural interaction of media by children in their leisure moments and in their social relationship, which is re?ected in symbolic games.