Regras, jogos e aprendizagem para crianças

Abstract

The Grupo de Trabalho Diferenciado (GTD) on the theme “Games, Rules and Learning” was a work developed throughout the first half of 2019 with children in the 3rd Year of the First Cycle, at the Centro Pedagógico UFMG. Its purpose was to help children understand the rules and develop a critical sense of why there are rules and the meaning of following them or, at times, the importance of questioning them. In addition, we seek to put them to work collectively, aiming to awaken the feeling of a group, which is a very important concept to be worked on at school. The motivation for working with this group in particular comes from observing the reality of the students present. The first point is: the Centro Pedagógico UFMG is a school that allows for enormous interaction between different social groups, as it adheres to the admission process through a lottery, expanding the students' network of contacts and allowing them to encounter a variety of realities there. Second, the class presents a questioning behavior towards the rules, which instigated the teachers to seek a way of working in which they can develop this understanding, broaden the questioning itself and the ways in which these are made. We developed the work by bringing different types of games to experience them in a different class. During class time, the group played and discussed the rules, their variations and why they exist. In addition, they selected important characteristics and values ​​to be worked on along with the game, such as attention and patience. There was the elaboration of some previous hypotheses, that the work aimed at understanding the meanings of the rules in the games could contribute to similar appropriation in the daily life of schools. Due to the aforementioned class diversity, some games might work with some groups and not work with others, some children might need individual support in practice, and some games might need adaptations to include all students. For this reason, the teacher needs to be attentive to the group and to the development of the activity, so that the class is really enjoyed by the students and the objectives are achieved. We hope that, at the end of the work that extends into the second semester, the group will be able to present a greater understanding of the existing rules not only at school, but in society as a whole, which is governed by laws and decrees that coordinate life in society . In addition, we noticed that the group was able to expand its ways of discussing the topic, in addition to just going against the rules and suffering the consequences. Finally, teachers hope that the class understands itself in the group unit that they form within the micro society present in the school and that teamwork with diversities and inclusions can be much better used by them.