A atividade lúdica na educação infantil: relação entre desenvolvimento e aprendizagem

Abstract

This article has the problem understanding the relationship between the practice of play in Early Childhood Education and psychomotor and cognitive development and learning of school, looking objectively show the importance of recreational activities for early childhood education contributes to the psycho-motor and cognitive young child, promoting their learning and awakening their imaginations and creativity, knowing the practice of teachers who take recreational activities to promote learning and awaken creativity, to identify how the teacher works to understand how to play and can play activity stir the imagination and awaken the creativity of children. The research methodology was based on bibliographic research and on observations made in early childhood education classes. Concluding that the 5 recreational activities contribute to the development of the child in all its dimensions and promote learning by facilitating the understanding of content learned at school. Teachers act as mediators of knowledge construction, operating and directing the activities, the playfulness present in these activities take the little ones to unleash their imaginations and develop their creativity as much as possible, continuously expanding their knowledge. Therefore, the conclusion which we draw is that the play is indispensable for the construction of knowledge, forming citizens for life.