O poder da brincadeira uma pesquisa narrativa sobre a importância do lúdico na educação infantil

Abstract

This work has the general objective of investigating the importance of play in early childhood education. In it, we explore the benefits of playing and ludic activities for the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of children in the age group of the researched educational stage. In addition, we examined the effects of play on the motivation, engagement and learning of children in the first stage of Basic Education through a narrative of an experience carried out in the supervised internship of early childhood education of the Pedagogy course at UFAL, campus sertão, in a municipal school located in the city of Água Branca -AL. The research is based on theoretical foundations of Piaget (1994), Vygotsky (1996), Kishimoto (2002), Lazaretti (2011), among others. To carry out the research, we used bibliographic research as a methodology through a review of the existing literature that addresses the main theoretical concepts and research related to play in early childhood education and narrative research (SOUSA and CABRAL, 2015), in which the researcher expresses their perceptions, experiences and visions about the ludic in early childhood education during the pedagogical practice carried out during the supervised internship discipline in Early Childhood Education. The results revealed that playful play plays a key role in early childhood education, as it is through play and playful activities that children explore the world around them, develop cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills, and build knowledge in a meaningful way.