O corpo brincante – uma abordagem artística e pedagógica desenvolvida com o projeto Brincar é uma felicidade na EMEIEF Rachel de Queiroz em Maracanaú/CE

Abstract

This article presents an artistic and pedagogical approach entitled the playing body approach, built from my experiences as an artist-teacher. Through traditional knowledge and practices and their creative practices, I accessed knowledge linked to traditional and popular dances, connecting students, teachers and the learning process in Arts, with the aim of providing meaningful teaching. The focus of this text is on the implementation of the project Playing is happiness, proposed within the scope of the Professional Master's Degree in Arts (ProfArtes) at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and carried out between August 2022 and August 2023, with pre-adolescents in the 6th year, in a socially vulnerable situation at the Municipal School of Early Childhood and Elementary Education (EMEIEF) Rachel de Queiroz, in Maracanaú (CE). These students have bodies commonly considered undisciplined, sometimes being made invisible. It is a transitional phase of life between childhood and adolescence, where there are structural changes in the school, with the insertion of multiple teachers and desks and chairs lined up in rows. A conducive context for them to lose their playfulness, I sought to show students how a happy body that moves and plays can enable better relationships and results in the teaching-learning processes. To do this, we establish a link with their ancestries, discovering games and sung toys from popular culture inserted in the family environment. The playing body approach is based on Paulo Freire's pedagogy, highlighting the emancipation and autonomy of students. It incorporates the vision of Isabel Marques who, through play and experimentation, proposes a dance linked to the students' context. Furthermore, it values ancestry, following the teachings of Inaicyra Falcão dos Santos, who focuses on the importance of recognizing each student's bodily and cultural inscriptions. As for the methodological aspects used in the research, they were theoretical/empirical in nature, exploratory in nature, with a descriptive qualitative approach, using ethnographic methods such as interviews and participant

observation. It aims to analyze how the playing body, in art teaching, can enhance socio- affective relationships and thus become a pedagogical approach. Data analyzes showed a

positive impact with the application of the playing body approach, and were based on interviews and observation of the body in educational and creative artistic practices.