Na creche também se aprende: a importância do brincar para o desenvolvimento integral das crianças

Abstract

This research sought to understand the teaching knowledge about playing in day care. Playing is an extremely important tool for children's learning in all educational environments, whether formal or informal, since education does not only take place in school institutions. The theoretical framework was composed by Ariès, (1986), kishimoto, (2010), Didonet, (2001), Andrade, (2010), Brazil, (1996), Brazil, (1998), among others. In this sense, we try to answer the following question: What is the importance of playing for children according to daycare teachers? Based on this problem, we seek to carry out a brief historical course on day care in Brazilian education until it became part of formal education; highlight the importance of playing for the integral development of the child; understand the perception of three educators from the daycare where the research was carried out. This is a qualitative study, configured in a case study, where the field of investigation was a municipal day care center, located in the city of Pariconha- Alagoas, being three educators subjects of the research. As a data collection instrument, a structured interview was used, which was carried out in December 2019. The data obtained allowed the elaboration and analysis of 3 categories: Playing in child development; the space of playing in school planning and playing in the family's perception. Thus, it was possible to investigate how the teachers consider playing in day care; what is their consideration of their importance in children's lives with regard to their development; how the planning of educational practice takes place; as well as identifying, in the teachers' view, how parents and/or children's family members see daycare and play. In this way, it is expected that such investigations signal new ways of working, understanding and fostering the debate about playing in early childhood education, specifically in day care centers.