O brincar como recurso pedagógico: contribuições para o desenvolvimento cognitivo de crianças da educação infantil, a parti do olhar docente.

Abstract

This present monography work came from the following question: how play can contribute to the cognitive development of the children in Early Childhood Education, from the teacher’s perspective. In general objective we have: to analyze the importance of play for the development of children in Early Childhood Education. The specific objectives are arranged in the following way: describe pedagogical contributions of the play in Early Childhood Education; understand the children’s development process through play; reflect about the valorization of the play in school ground, from the teacher’s perspective. This work leads us a reflection about the utilization of play as pedagogical resource in the Early Childhood Education children’s learning process, allowing a larger perception of the manner how teachers insert this act in their pedagogical practices. The research has a qualitative aspect, using as data collect instrument the semi-structured interview and the content analysis in the thematic modality. The interview was accomplished with four female teachers who work or had worked in Cajazeiras’-PB Early Childhood Education municipal public school system. In final considerations we can reaffirm the need and significance of a pedagogical practice based on playfulness for the promotion of learning and development of Early Childhood Education’s children in different group ages and understand that play provide integrity of the person, as long as been experienced in classroom in a planned and compromised manner with the different learnings.