Prazer de brincar: entre o analógico e o digital - crianças da educação infantil :-)

Abstract

The aim of the present work is to show the importance of playing to child‟s development, in the physical, intellectual, affective and social aspects. One way to learn rules, limits and socialize (HUIZINGA, 2000). The author emphasizes that the child‟s development happens with the stimuli they receive from the environment in which they live, and the toys and the jokes are allies in this phase (VIGOTSKY, 2001). The author also shows that the school curriculum must value the playing, because it is through the jokes that the children learn, develop their abilities, and feel happy (MOYLE, 2006). It is also stressed that the generation Homo Zapiens also learns through playing (VEEN; VRAKKING, 2009). The research was done with 5 and 6 year old children, who attend Pre-School B in São Francisco de Assis Fundamental Teaching School, a private school, with the intention of knowing which degree of interest they have in playing with the analogical and the digital toy. The methodological procedures of the research were based on Gil (2010); it was decided to use experimentation. Data collect happened through observation in the classroom, talks with the children and their parents, photographic registers and filming, and the sending of a questionnaire to the parents of the observed students, through Google Docsforms, to check which are the toys and the jokes the children choose to play in environments other than the school one, and the parents‟ relation with the digital technologies. These resources led to data production and to the reviews, considering that the children present the same intensity of pleasure whether playing with analogical or digital toy. As a product, a video was made, to serve as a guide to parents and teachers, about the importance of playing for children within this age range, stressing the need of interaction with the two kinds of toys: the analogical and the digital.