Perspectivas acadêmico-científicas da educação física sobre a contribuição da natação para o desenvolvimento das crianças entre os anos de 2016 e 2020

Abstract

Children's swimming aims to facilitate the teaching-learning process, the playful elements favor a more fun and pleasurable aquatic practice, with less technical context. The objective of the present study was to analyze scientific articles that discussed the contribution of swimming to the development of children. This is a descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative research, carried out from the reading and categorization of five articles, and the thematic categories were: parents' perception; benefits of swimming; motor experiences. The mapping of the articles took place from searches carried out in SciELO, considering the years of publication between 2016 and 2020. The productions revealed that parents perceive that swimming associated with playful elements encourages children's participation in classes; that the practice brings many benefits and increases children's quality of life and that motor experiences in the aquatic environment are broad and enhance physical abilities and motor skills. Finally, we consider it important to point out that physical education professionals can work professionally in aquatic practices and present swimming as a very complete activity with fewer restrictions for many people, being still considered a sport of great value and a practice that helps the physical development and socialization.