The accounting of stories in children education in a school in the municipality of the periphery of the city of são paulo, brasil

Storytelling is the oldest art. Stories are wonderful sources of experiences. They can broaden the child's horizon; increasing your knowledge of the world around you. Stories provide pleasure and excitement, leading the child to symbolism, favoring the resolution of inner conflicts that she may be experiencing. Thus, fairy tales are essential for the child's formation in relation to herself and the world that is inserted. Through the good and bad characters, ugly and beautiful, good and beautiful; the child has an understanding of some basic values of human and social conduct. Gillig (1999) calls the tales of fairy tales wonderful by the predominance of essential situations present in these, which lead the child to the balance of the imagination. The author attributes to the tales a kind of divinatory intervention divided into three functions: phantasmagoric, aesthetic and enchantment. According to Bettelheim (1980), the characters and events present in the fairy tales point to some internal conflicts that the child may be feeling at a certain moment in his life, causing him to seek ways and other steps to solve problems.