A ludicidade como recurso pedagógico para o ensino na educação infantil

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the role of playfulness as a pedagogical resource in the development and learning of children in kindergarten. The methodology was the literature, in which it was found that playfulness contributes to psychological development, motor, social and cognitive development in early childhood education. As a theoretical subsidy was used mainly the concepts of: Almeida (1995), Cardoso (2008), Friedmann (1998), Santos (1999), Resende (1999), Rosamilha (1979) and Vygotsky (1984) among other authors who address the importance of using the playful in kindergarten. It also sought throughout the work show the role and importance of the play as a resource and a practice that contributes to the full development of children and to serve as a foundation for the course of their educational life. We conclude that once the purpose of the play was only provide pleasure in children and currently, many institutions began to use it as an essential tool and as a means of motivation, interaction, research and discovery for the child's knowledge, in order to make them future citizens reflective and able to transform our society in a fair, intelligent and humane way.