O olhar dos pais e gestores para o brincar na educação infantil

Abstract

The general objective for this study is to understand the conception of the managers and the parents about the play in the childhood education and this study is motivated by the researcher’s passion by this level of education. This is a qualitative research, such as Exploratory Case Study (YIN, 2010) and was analyzed according to the proposal of Yin (2010). Authors such as PARO (1986), SOUSA (1998), SZYMANSKI (2003) and the Curriculum Guidelines for Early Childhood Education (DCNEI, 2010) were used to base the study. As a result, verified that the Childhood Education parents and managers have a special look for Childhood Education play, because they recognize the importance of play at this level of school life. Therefore, they conceive the play as an action that contributes to the integral development of the child and facilitates the construction of knowledge. It is concluded that at this level of basic education must take and given priority of this playful way, so that the children can to be able to develop the potential needed for the next level of life. For this, a democratic educational management, based on collaboration and participation of all segments, is the key to the integral development of the children.