A IMPORTÂNCIA DO LÚDICO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

Abstract

Playing is one of the possibilities of the ludicity that is linked to childhood and is present in the day-to-day life of every child, making possible the construction of their own knowledge. The importance of addressing the theme ludicity is that children's games should be considered both in the educational environment and in family relationships, since working the playful helps in the learning and development of the child, and makes a pleasant and natural learning. The main objective of this article is to understand how playful can be essential for the development of skills and competencies to be acquired by children from a young level, in their learning process. It is a bibliographical research to deepen the knowledge of the theme addressed, in order to collect information from authors who addressed this theme. The following descriptors were used to search for articles in this study: Playful, Early Childhood Education; Learning, and Child Development. Articles were published from 2021 to 2022, especially on the Google Academic Portal. The main references for the construction of this article were PIAGET (1971), (1998) KISHIMOTO (1996), (2006), and BNCC. The results show that the playful promotes in Early Childhood Education an educational practice of knowledge, rules, and socialization, which contribute to the mediation of the teaching and learning process of the child.