A Ludicidade como Motivação na Aprendizagem Escolar.

Abstract

This paper addresses the use of recreational activities as an important methodological tool for school learning. The playful activity is an important tool to help the process of teaching and learning of children as they can involve them and transmit significant knowledge. Thus, the question that arises for this work is: How teachers understand the use of playfulness in the classroom? To answer this question we elaborated the following objectives : To analyze the use of recreational activities as an educational tool in children education; Identify the importance that teachers give to the playful as a pedagogical tool; Reflect the use of games and playing as the teaching-learning process tool and to discuss what teachers understand about the playful in childhood education. This study was conducted through exploratory research based on authors who approach the playfulness. From the interviews it was revealed understand that the playful is used daily and sometimes is seen as a helper of the teaching-learning process, thereby proving that with the playfulness is achieved better performance on student learning. However, it is important to say that it is essential to recreation in the child's life, both for his motor development, affective and social, as to one's teacher and student relationship. Finally, we understand that the games and the plays become facilitators for the process of teaching and learning happen in a natural and pleasurable way.