O jogo popular como conteúdo de ensino na educação infantil: uma experiência a partir da pesquisa-ação

Abstract

Modernity and its consequent globalization have brought with it innumerable elements that impact behavior and modify the daily way of life of people. Children who used to play in the streets, replace popular or traditional games with new digital technologies. Taking into account the importance of practicing these games for children's development, the school environment through physical education classes is a means of rescuing them. In view of this the research problem was related to the place that the popular games occupy in the physical education classes of elementary school. In this action research, the theme of popular games was elaborated during 5 (five) interventions, whose main objective was to problematize the pertinence of these games in children 's education, from didactic sequences of teaching, as well as watering games and games that parents and grandparents practiced as children, critically reflect the game content in physical education classes and stimulate the process of redefining popular games. The present work was developed in a school located in the neighborhood of Ibura - Recife / PE, with 107 students of the first and second years of elementary school. Qualitative research of the research-action type and content analysis were adopted as a methodological reference. The results were positive, detected during the activities carried out during the intervention period, confirming the contributions in the teaching - learning process.