A importância do jogo de papéis na Educação Infantil

Abstract

This course completion work discusses the importance of role playing in early childhood education. Role playing is an enriching activity and irreplaceable for the child, constituting the main activity from the age of three to seven years old. It is through this activity that children get to know and they understand the social roles of adults and their relationships. the general objective of this project was to discuss the importance of role playing and its contribution to the child learning and development. For this, it is based on the following specific objectives: to understand the importance of role playing; to show how much the make-believe game contributes to the development of higher psychic processes and formation of the child's personality; elucidate the importance of role playing in educational practice. This research is of character bibliography, developed based on authors who study and defend the relevance of role playing, such as Elkonin (1987), Mukhina (1996), Facci (2004,) Larazetti (2016), Leontiev (1998) and Mello (2007). As a result, we have the defense that in role playing you obtain the opportunity for the occurrence of development of higher psychic functions, such as imagination, speech, memory, attention, control of conduct and thought, because as the child has the opportunity to play, he is developing his psychic functions superiors that humanizes it, as well as through social relations, developing your personality. The importance of games in early childhood education is clearly seen, as it contributes significantly to the learning and development of child. Teachers are fundamental in this process: observing, planning and organizing the conditions for the development of play.