Pensando as práticas dançantes na educação infantil

Abstract

This work has focused on dance in early childhood education contributions to the formation of the child, the benefits it offers within the school environment, understanding the entire process of development and learning of the child, and understanding the dance as a whole where the child broadens his repertoire of movements, develops his creativity, expresses his desires, desires, feelings, emotions and thoughts and recognizes himself as a subject that produces culture. The general objective of this study is to understand how the dance pedagogical practices in early childhood education happen (are thought, planned and performed). The specific objectives are to identify and understand the dance is present in the daily life of early childhood education in the municipal Centers of childhood Education of the City of Goiânia through analysis of documents and construct proposals of dance activities for Child Education in a critical and emancipatory way. This research has a qualitative approach and as an action research method. There were analyzes of documents of early childhood education, articles and dissertations that discuss the teaching of dance and its possibilities in Early Childhood Education. Through this research it was perceived that dance can contribute to the development and formation of children and that it plays a great importance in the stage of early childhood education, where the child is not considered a mere reproduction of movements already Proposed, and yes, that it participates in this process of construction consciously and that it recognizes its various possibilities of movements in a free and safe way of creating new significations for the dance.

Key-words: child; early childhood; dance.