Brief reflections around Playful Pedagogica Games and Artistic Expression as motivators for school learning

contibutes from an Integrated Curricular Project

Abstract

Contemporary school faces the need to find new pedagogical strategies and teaching methods that contribute to the harmonious development of child and his school success. This calls teachers to reflect on its educational and pedagogical practices, focusing on differentiating pedagogical models that respect the individuality of the student, thus contributing to the enrichment of the learning environment and motivation for the learning process.

Some of these differential teaching strategies, supported by researchers in this area, permeates the development of ludic educational and recreational activities, built in the form of educational games and plastic expression activities, which, when combined with the programmatic contents, motivate and mobilize students to the development of meaningful learning due to its practical and playful aspects.

This study aims to analyse the potential of recreational and educational games and artistic expression on the motivation of school learning in a 2nd year class of the 1st cycle of basic education. Based on a research-action methodology of a qualitative nature, the results of this study suggest that recreational and educational games, as well as artistic expression, constitute potentiating factors of motivation and cooperative work, triggering a greater predisposition of the class group for the realization of new learnings.

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