A brincadeira de faz de conta de papéis sociais na produção acadêmica brasileira (2010-2016)

The objective of this research is to investigate the scientific-academic production of social roles make - believe activities in the context of early infantile education, specifically in pre-school, in the works published between 2010 and 2016, in Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SCIELO) databases, Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Education Personnel (CAPES) and in the Working Group "Education of Children from 0 to 6 years (GT07), of the Annual Meetings of the National Association of Postgraduate and Research in Education (ANPEd). Based on principles of Cultural Historical Theory, a priori, selected the researches that presented the play of pretend in thematic. Subsequently, through the careful reading of the abstracts, the researches that spoke about the object of the investigation were selected and, also, they incited the importance of the social environment for the process of humanization of the children. Twenty-five papers were categorized according to thematic discussions. The results show that people's living conditions interfere with the way children play and perceive the social environment; the teacher needs to participate and make - believe activities, planning, enriching the contexts, intervening and evaluating the children at the moment of play. In addition, there were few records at the national level of research investigating the make-believe activities children of the cities of the Amazon.