Abstract

ETCHEBEHERE ARENAS, Gabriela et al. Perceptions and emotions in light of a pandemic: gathering the voices of boys and girls from a public early childhood institution in Uruguay. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.1, pp.5-23.  Epub June 01, 2021. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v11.n1.1.

This article shows the preliminary results of an educational action-research activity framed in a university extension practice carried out by the Early Childhood and Initial Education Program of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of the Republic in an initial education center located in the city of Montevideo. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the team deployed an action-research device during the return to face-to-face attendance at educational centers that aimed to identify the perceptions that boys and girls attributed to the COVID-19 confinement. It also allowed to describe and analyze the emotions that confinement generated in them, as well as analyze the effects that girls and boys report in relation to the time of confinement and not attending the Educational Center. The main conclusions mark the directly proportional relationship that access to information by boys and girls had -according to their evolutionary stage- with the possibility of generating a healthy adaptation to the new reality produced by confinement. This situation generated ambivalent emotions in boys and girls, mainly of joy about the time shared with the family and, to a lesser extent, of anger and fear due to isolation and the possibility of getting sick. The need that the majority of boys and girls expressed about longing the instances of socialization, play and learning in the educational center was also conclusive.

Keywords : Lockdown; pandemic; childhood perceptions.

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