As especificidades do professor especialista em Educação Física: reflexões sobre o brincar no desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

Historically, human beings have always felt the need to communicate, and for this, before owning the domain of language, we used the body to communicate with what was around him. The move is an important dimension of development and human culture. Children move from birth acquiring an ever greater control over their own bodies. In this sense, the space and the time of Physical Education in Early Childhood Education is a topic that generates many tensions, especially with regard to their specificity. The importance of embodiment and the playfulness of the Child Physical Education, discipline in question here, as well as the presence of a professional graduate, qualified and competent to work in this field, to do a better job and child development, aroused the intention to present the importance of the role of the physical education teacher in kindergarten. This study aims to highlight the importance of the participation of physical education as part of early childhood education as a knowledge production field, with place and space in early childhood education institutions. For this it is necessary to reflect on the movement and the play of the child in relation to the process of acquiring knowledge. This study is characterized as a literature review study, analyzing and synthesising information, emphasizing the importance that the play has on child development and the importance and need for the participation of physical education teacher acting as a mediator in this process, describing the benefits to the development of children from zero to six years.