Playing with pictures: a practice of media literacy in Early Childhood Education

This paper reflects on the new challenges facing the teaching of image and media literacy in early childhood education. The Qualitative research related here, analyzes the work In the Garden of Paradise Theatre. To analyze the work, were carried out two detailed observations of the same, focus groups with students of teachers who came to see the play, and interviews with those responsible for the Paradise Theater. In its conclusions, provides a reading of the images used in the dramatization and discusses the use made of these images and the interaction that occurs with children through them. Although the study focuses on the analysis of the images, the work In the Garden is a pedagogical proposal around images aimed at children through the dramatization that enable best practices to educate the look and helping to promote independence and freedom in the look and increasing their chances to understand the reality.