Brincadeiras das crianças do campo: uma sistematização bibliográfica

Abstract

This paper presents a systematization of recent scientific publications on the play of rural children in the Brazilian context. Through bibliographic research, we identified which games are produced by rural children, verified whether children actively participate in the researches, and investigated how the relationship between children and territory is presented. We adopted the descriptors ‘play’ and ‘countryside’ to identify articles published in the last 5 years (2019-2024) in the collection of journals gathered in the Portal de Periódicos da CAPES. We selected 14 articles, which we fully read to analyze their content. The rural environment appears with empirical research in indigenous, peasant, extractive, quilombola, and rural communities. The results showed that the games and play of rural children are directly related to nature and their territories, as are their handmade toys. Play, in addition to reinforcing the individual and collective identity of children, contributes to the protection of their cultures. We conclude that recent research has brought important and convergent data on rural childhoods.