ABSTRACT:
The discussion is about if and how playful activities have been added to the syllabus of the initial years of the elementary school. To support it, the results of the bibliographic research, conducted in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Essays (Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações - BDTD), are presented in connection with the results of the empirical research conducted in a first-year classroom of a municipal school in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Based on such results, the following points are raised: (i) scarce games/playful activities in the school routine; (ii) identification of some gaps where such activities may take place; (iii) majority of exercise and rule-driven games; and (iv) low-frequency, short-duration and simple role-play activities.
Keywords:
Nine-year Elementary School; Playful activity; Historical-cultural theory