O USO DE JOGOS RECICLÁVEIS, COMO RECURSO PEDAGÓGICO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL

Abstract

The importance of the use of games with recyclable materials, as a pedagogical resource in Early Childhood Education, is a relevant theme for contemporaneity. This is due to the need to work on environmental awareness from the earliest school years as well as the preservation of nature and sustainability. This situation provides children with experiences of reuse of recyclable materials in the construction of games that will contribute to their teaching-learning process. The aim of the present research is to demonstrate the contribution of these recyclable games in Early Childhood Education and how this reflects on the lives of children, including their consumption relations, since games and games are stimulus activities capable of contributing to the cognitive, physical, social and emotional development of the child. This study will also support the professionals of Early Childhood Education, expanding the tools capable of awakening in children the interest to learn through pleasurable, playful and sustainable experiences. This research - carried out through a descriptive and quantitative methodology - with students from four to nine years of the entire period of a private school in Varginha / MG pointed out a new perspective on the part of the students, who had the opportunity to produce their own toys, valuing the process of construction of them and, also, the raw material that would have previously been discarded. In this way, education transcends the walls of the school and begins to contribute to the students' citizenship, because it aims at changing habits and instigates actions that can cause positive impacts in the environment in which they live.