Literatura e educação estética na educação infantil

This article aims to analyze work proposals concerning literary reading in a textbook for Early Childhood education considering aesthetic education proposed by Vigotski, by means of teacher mediation as a fundamental element for adult and children humanization. Through documentary analysis, the textbook proposals that use the literary texts were selected and numbered. Some examples for reflexion on didactic proposals based on the Historical-Cultural Theory principles were highlighted from specific sections about the work with literature. As a result, it is possible to infer that the proposals of the studied textbook show mainly fragments of literary texts, with the purpose of teaching some content or technical aspects of the mother tongue, disregarding specificities of teaching and learning in childhood. Therefore, it can be concluded that an education that is intended to be aesthetic requires an intentional teaching directed towards active child participation in pedagogical situations orientated towards access to the arts and its humanizing potential.