A importância do brincar e a ludicidade na educação infantil

Abstract

The present work has developed a study on the importance of playing and ludicity in early childhood education and its general objective is to analyze the contributions that play the ludic can provide for the teaching and learning of children in infancy Education.Throughout this monograph, we sought to reflect on the contributions and importance of playfulness, games,classroom games as educational knowledge, seeking to show the influence that this methodology brings on the cognitive and social development of children. The research was carried out at the Reference Center for Early Childhood Education (CREI), Maria do Socorro Rodrigues, located in the neighborhood of Colinas do Sul II, in the city of João Pessoa-PB, where the questionnaires were applied with eight educatiors who were willing to respond. The main authors used for the conclusion of this monographic work were Cunha (1984, 1998, 2002); Kishimoto (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2009); Marcelo (2004); Ronca (1989); Vygotsky (1979), among others.It is concluded that play in earty childhood education, although used by teachers as a facilitating strategy in the teaching- learning process of children, still requires a greater attention on the part of educators of children’s education.