Contribuições da natação para o desenvolvimento cognitivo e físico da criança : revisão integrativa

Abstract

The present study is a literature review, which sought in the existing articles to answer what are the contributions of swimming to cognitive and physical development for the child. The general objective of this paper is to expose the contributions of swimming to the cognitive and physical development of children. The article consists of an integrative review, in which articles related to the theme Swimming Contributions to the cognitive and physical development of the child were collected, using the VHL and Scielo as the main bibliographic research platforms. Separate descriptors were used in the VHL Decs. The results were categorized in a synoptic framework in which the objectives, methodology and results of the selected articles were classified, in order to support the content exposed in the article. To answer what are the contributions of swimming to cognitive and physical development of the child it is concluded that there was a need for further deepening because there is no more specific content focused on the contributions of swimming for cognitive and physical development of the child. As this is an issue to be explored in the area of school physical education, further research is needed in this area, with larger sample collections to be able to consolidate the idea and achieve the main objective of the article