A utilização da brincadeira na educação infantil

Abstract

Leisure activities has always been present through history and time, though depending both on social and the historical framework where the child is inserted in. Consequently, playing is recreated with it power of imagination and creation. In fact, it is part of the children daily routine and is him who defines it as spontaneous, pleasurable and without any commitment. Thus, the importance of playing, which is entered in the education field, allows the student to learn faster and easier. Therefore, the goal of the current research was to analyze how the infantile education teachers deal with leisure activities in their classes, indeed the research was approached from an observational, descriptive and qualitative method, carried out in the moths of January and February 2015. In the study has been interviewed 8 teachers from infantile schools. In order to obtain the results, a quiz has been used as a tool of research containing information both inquiring the socialdemographic profile and how playing was being inserted as a tool of education learning process. Concluding, leisure activities were a fact through the research, although it limitations, playing was also seen as an important instrument of building and developing knowledges. Nonetheless, there is a lot to do on this field to make teachers along with schools understand that leisure is not only a trigger to encourage schooling, but also a way to understand the development.