Os jogos educativos no desenvolvimento integral das crianças na educação infantil

Abstract

The use of educational games in early childhood education has become an important pedagogical tool, widely used to stimulate the holistic development of children. In other words, working with educational games in the learning process allows for a playful integration of knowledge, enabling children to learn through play and engage with content in a pleasant and meaningful way. This study has the general objective of analyzing, through specialized literature, the impacts of using games on the integral development of children in Early Childhood Education. The specific objectives are: to understand how academic articles address the relationship between child development and the use of games; and to investigate, based on existing studies, the performance of children when using games. This is a bibliographic research, developed through the selection of 14 scientific articles from the CAPES Journal Portal, using the descriptor “Games for Child Development,” covering the years 2021 to 2024, a post-pandemic period. The literature review was supported by authors such as Kishimoto (2010), Freire (2011), Vygotsky (1989, 1991, 1998), Elkonin (2009), and Piaget (1975, 1978, 1994, 1996). The results obtained from the selected articles show that educational games in early childhood education have a direct relationship with the child’s integral development, especially when used in a planned way during the learning process. The analyzed studies address the topic in diverse ways, presenting theoretical contributions and support from official documents, reinforcing the importance of games and play in childhood. Thus, educational games are understood as one of the most complete modalities to stimulate the various areas of child development, serving as a playful and meaningful tool.