O Brincar no Recreio de Turmas de Educação Infantil

Abstract

The play is characteristic and essential for childhood; in its turn, the school recess is a space/time on the play happens in most of the time. From that, this study aims to analyse how the children experience the play in school recess of Early Childhood Education classes, in municipal schools of a city in central region of Rio Grande do Sul. For this, it realized an ethnographic study through observation of school recess in Early Childhood Education classes (Pré A and B) in the Basic Education schools. Although both schools was municipals, the way of play during the school recess was different; also, the MakeBelieve play happened in both schools.