Gamificação em biblioteca infantil: um estudo na biblioteca do Instituto Reis Magos

Abstract

It discusses gamification as a tool that encourages reading and the formation of readers, having the children's library as a research field. It aims to present gamification as an auxiliary tool for the formation of readers in children's libraries. To achieve this objective, there are specific objectives: to know how gamification is used in the Professor Aluísio Machado Library at Instituto Reis Magos; identify products related to gamification in the training of readers; establish recommendations for gamification in children's libraries. Methodologically, it uses the inductive method, contemplating the characteristic of innovation in social research, attributing a qualitative approach and participant observation. It applies a questionnaire as an extensive research technique to a sample of Elementary School students from Instituto Reis Magos, based on storytelling and gamified activity, seeking to know children's perceptions and reports about learning. It also applies a questionnaire with the manager of the children's library of the Institute. It results in positive consequences regarding the use of gamification as a teaching-learning tool, fostering a taste for reading in the children who participated in the research. It describes two gamified activities that are carried out in the Reis Magos Institute library. It considers that gamification should be combined with the activities of the librarian, mainly in the management of children's libraries and school libraries, while, according to playfulness, children and adolescents can learn by playing and exercising reasoning through mechanisms that help the learning process.