A importância de aprender brincando

Abstract

Preschool education has been seen and treated with a more focused importance on what is best for children, and playfulness in this context has been essential to these changes in the educational field. The playful is already under investigation for some time and becoming increasingly proven to be efficient in building new knowledge for the small child. From this perspective, and in the search for a better understanding of how is the construction of a meaningful learning using playful in educational activities of early childhood education, this research aims to reflect on the importance of teaching and learning playing from theoretical conjectures already investigated this possibility in several ways, thereby building new hypotheses and concepts about playfulness and often confirming its positive results. Methodologically, this study presents an empirical research and is based on a qualitative approach in order to better understand the nature of play in the learning process and presents observations and interviews with teachers of a school in the municipal Piancó - PB, which helped to obtain better information on this subject. In their results, the research shows that playfulness when used in the learning process properly can lead to the construction of new knowledge in an enjoyable and fun way, and that the observed school using this tool even with real difficulties, such as little space physical, which will hinder the process. Thus, on the information presented, this research contributes data that emphasize the playfulness as essential in the education sector, since studying playing is much more effective for learning of young children and that the children's institutions seek partly follow this practice teaching as a teaching tool today. However, are still factors that need further studies on the work of teachers in the daily school-related play as a way of learning.