Playing as a child’s learning and development tool in early children’s education

Abstract

This study aims to identify the importance of using playful activities in the learning of children in kindergarten and how teachers conduct such practices as a tool to develop learning. The work is justifi ed by the fact that the ludic in early childhood education has been one of the instruments used to stimulate and transform the assimilation of knowledge into a pleasant and fun process, promoting meaningful learning for the child to be able to know, understand and build their knowledge making become a citizen of this world, being able to exercise citizenship with dignity and competence. The present work intends, through an applied questionnaire, to explain about this theme that is so important for the development of the child. The work is a qualitative fi eld research, aiming to answer the following research problem: can play be used as a learning tool for the development of early childhood education? The general objective of the work is to discuss about playing as a tool for learning and development in early childhood education. As specifi c objectives we have: to present the teachers’ view about playing; identify how playing is used by teachers and discuss the importance that this practice has for student development according to the interviewed teachers’ point of view. The work has a brief theoretical reference, followed by the methodology adopted in the research and the presentation of the measured data.