O brincar na educação infantil: as contribuições da ludicidade para o desenvolvimento integral

Abstract

This research focused mainly on how play and playfulness interfere in the development process of children during Early Childhood Education. Thus, we present as a general objective of the research: to analyze the teaching practice of Early Childhood Education mediated by play and playfulness and its implications in the teaching and learning process of children. And to meet this objective, we stipulated the following specific objectives: to know the conceptions of Early Childhood Education teachers about the relevance of play in the integral development of children; to understand how play impacts the teaching and learning process of Early Childhood Education children, based on the teachers' statements; and to describe the teaching practices that use play as a central axis developed by Early Childhood Education teachers. The literature review was based on the study of authors such as Kishimoto (1996), Vygotsky (1991), Souza (2022), Rau (2013), among others. Therefore, we address the relevance of play in Early Childhood Education for development and for the teaching and learning process, through the speeches of teachers working in a public educational institution in Campo Maior, Piauí. Data production occurred through semi-structured interviews, for the data analysis procedures we used the content analysis technique of Bardin (2011). From the analysis, we developed the following categories of analysis: “Play is everything: Conceptions of Early Childhood Education teachers about play”, “Play is a serious thing”: Dialogues between play and the teaching-learning process of Early Childhood Education students and “The play that I do”: teaching practices focused on play, in which we observe the teachers' understandings about play and its importance in the school context, we also observe which practices the teachers use in their practice, as well as the obstacles encountered in the use of activities that involve play as the main resource.