The Importance of Play Spaces and The Pedagogical Process Developed by Educators

Abstract

Playfulness develops imagination, socialization and perception of the world, contributing to the construction of identity and autonomy of the human being. When the children play, imagine and learn, they develop themselfs as citizens. Through the playful, they reproduce situations of their daily life and from this behavior develop their identity. Given this information, the importance of playful spaces and educators for child development is understood, through a bias that evaluates the child's interaction with the environment. The main objective is the elaboration of qualitative parameters for the evaluation of the potential of education and playfulness environments. The methodological structure of this qualitative study describes a bibliographic and field research that analyzes and emphasizes the potential of playfulness in preschool education, in order to assist constant improvements in the design aspects of educational environments. Through surveys and analysis of schools that offer potential play spaces, we found that a small and scarce minority of educational institutions, in fact, can be classified as potentially playful educators. This shows that few public and private educational buildings are prepared for a human formation so necessary today.