Novos olhares para a arte na educação infantil: o desenho como foco.

Abstract

Art plays an essential role at school for the child's integral development. The artistic activities produced in the classroom contribute to body expression, in addition to developing the perception of space and time, through children's songs, illustrative drawings on a specific theme, interactive games and stories from popular culture. The general objective of this work is to understand the benefits of art in Early Childhood Education and the difficulties that arise in this process. To this end, specific objectives were outlined: to analyze the importance of art in Early Childhood Education and identify the difficulties encountered in working with art in this first stage of teaching. The methodology adopted to carry out this work was a bibliographical research on art and Early Childhood Education, in the database available on the Library page of the Teacher Training Center, at the Federal University of Campina Grande, in which a final work was published. course that deals with reflections on the topic, present in the collection of this institution. The analyzed study brought very important information for understanding, such as: the importance of art for the integral development of children and the importance of teacher training to deal with this topic, since art in education develops creativity, culture and the child's autonomy.