Dança educação como processo de ensino e aprendizagem na educação infantil

Abstract

The Dance is an area of knowledge that enables reflection as well as other artistic languages, enhancing the cognitive, critical, perceptive and conceptual development that stimulates the creativity and expressiveness of practitioners. The present research had as general objective to investigate the contribution of Dance Education in the process teaching and learning with specific objectives: To understand how the Dance can favor the teaching and learning process of children in Early Childhood Education; Check that the factors of this process are favored by the Dance activity; and Identify how the Dance can favor the development of some essential learning skills such as: attention, concentration, motor coordination, spatial notions and the socialization of children 04 and 05 years of the 1st period of Early Childhood Education held in a Private School School of the City of Manaus. The instruments used were interviews with the teacher and ludic activities of dances with the children. Through the analysis of the interviews with the teacher, it can be said that the Dance when worked inside the school for educational purposes, the children managed to acquire the socialization, worked the motor coordination and learned notions of spaces. Therefore, the application of dance education activities with children made explicit the great importance of Dance Education for the development of basic skills, thus providing a more effective learning.