O movimento e suas práticas metodológicas na educação infantil

Abstract

This paper presents a reflection about the movement and its methodological practices in early childhood education. Recognizes as the movement and its methodological practices are developed by teachers of early childhood education.Thus, establishing a correlation between the development: intellectual, emotional and motor. It describes how the body through movement, is treated in the educational action of the teacher in this school stage, which is the study of psychomotricity base. Compare also the various conceptions of the meaning and functions assigned to the body movement with the intellect, by the teachers, establish a link with the recommendations in the law to be applied in early childhood education. To achieve this goal, we adopted the research descriptive qualitative character. As a strategy, we adopted systematic observation and semistructured interviews as data collection instruments. This strategy allowed us to describe the actions practiced by teachers in early childhood education in the context of psychomotricity, before the movement and its practices. It was identified also important elements adopted by these education professionals, seeking the overall development of students. It was reflected in the end, about the importance of movement and methodological practices in early childhood education. Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Movement; Psychomotricity.