GAMES AND PLAY IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATION WITH MOVEMENT PROGRAM (STATE SECRETARIAT OF EDUCATION OF THE FEDERAL DISTRICT/SEEDF): an experience in the light of Critical-Overcoming Pedagogy in Physical Education classes.
Games and Toys. Curriculum in Motion of the Federal District. School Physical Education. Early Years of Elementary School. Critical-Overcoming Pedagogy. Education with Movement Program.
The present study is part of the Professional Master's Program in Physical Education in National Network (ProEF). The general objective was to analyze the content of games and games in the document Curriculum in Movement - CMDF (SEDF, 2018), to develop and analyze a pedagogical and interdisciplinary proposal, based on the Education with Movement Program - PECM (SEDF, 2018) and in the light of pedagogy critical-overcoming, for children in the early years of elementary school in a public school in the Federal District. The PECM is an initiative, in the context of public education in the Federal District, which aims to include Physical Education teachers in Early Childhood Education and the Early Years of Elementary School. Qualitative field research was carried out with the participation of 16 (sixteen) children from the 2nd year of Elementary School in the Early Years in partnership with the pedagogue teacher responsible for the class. We used the following instruments: participant observation recorded in a field diary; conversation wheel; design; analysis of documents and iconographic records. A pedagogical proposal was elaborated and developed, consisting of ten classes on games and games, according to the contents and learning objectives foreseen in the CMDF, valuing multiple languages (corporal, oral, written and audiovisual), seeking to contribute to the appropriation of knowledge, with the construction of critical thinking and the integral development of children. As a result of the investigation, we analyzed that the Curriculum in Movement document presents contradictions between its theoretical assumptions and a certain eclecticism in the exposition of the learning objectives and contents foreseen for Physical Education in the Early Years, especially in games and games, since they are structured with expressive emphasis on motor development and with little mention of cultural and historical aspects. We also conclude, based on the research intertwined with the pedagogical proposal around games and games, in the light of the Critical-Supercoming Pedagogy, that the (theoretical-practical) experiences lived by the children were significant for the expansion and deepening of the repertoire of games and games, in their gestural, historical and cultural elements, and for the development of critical thinking.