Symbolic resources and imagination in the context of storytelling

Abstract This article aims to analyze storytelling and the interaction between teacher and children with emphasis on the use of symbolic resources - and, therefore, the expansion of the imagination through the theoretical contribution of Historical-Cultural Psychology. The qualitative research used, for the construction of the data, observations, and videotaping of episodes of storytelling in a school library of Early Childhood Education. Subsequently, microanalysis of interactive episodes has performed. The participants of the research were 18 children between 4 and 5 years old and 1 teacher of school library of Early Childhood Education. Storytelling, interactively, enhanced the use of symbolic resources when participants made references to their everyday experiences permeated by affectivity - which, consequently, triggered the expansion of imaginative processes.