LINGUAGEM ESCRITA NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: CONTRIBUIÇÕES DA PSICOLOGIA HISTÓRICO-CULTURAL PARA A INSERÇÃO DA CRIANÇA NA CULTURA LETRADA.

For Cultural-Historical Psychology, written language is a complex symbolic system responsible for a significant qualitative leap in the historical development of the human psyche by representing, through very specific signs, the structure of oral language and the organization of thought. Trying to overcome the separation between alphabetization and literacy, within the limits of a cognitive and neuroscientific conception of reading, this article analyzes a field study carried out with preschoolers that were playing during the construction of a forest. During the activity, the children needed to express themselves through written language, like primitive men in their caves. In this way, this study aims to make a scientific contribution to the role of written language in Early Childhood Education, a subject that is still so controversial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]