A inserção da dança escolar como possibilidade de educação integral

Abstract

This research approaches the dance as possibility of integral education, considering it is inserted in the school context as an instrument of recreation - leading and mediating actions between teacher/student and this middle of the human expressiveness contributes positively to stimulate the child's general learning, waking up him/her the curiosity for the knowledge, that appears in a pleased and motivating form. The objectives of the study were: to relate the themes related to dance with the contents developed in the class room; to analyze, close to the teacher, the benefits of the dance in the child's global development; and to examine the physical education teacher's formation in the infant education. It is a descriptive and qualitative research, inserted in the research-action methodology, seated in Rudolf Laban's, Le Boulch, and other specialists presuppositions of the theme in subject. The sample was composed by 20 children, being 10 boys and 10 girls, with 6 year-old age, enrolled in Pré-III. The study was accomplished in the Child's House and Social Center São José of the city of Presidente Prudente (SP). The activities were developed at the patio of the school. They were used in the classes, handkerchiefs, balls, hula hoops and " paintings in the ground , as space resource and limit. Besides, music of BPM (Brazilian popular music) were selected, folkloric, music for children and rhythmics poems, to stimulate the spoken language and the auditory sharpness and to develop the mathematical logical thought for the rhythmic games and soothing games that work the kinestesic body intelligence. It was applied a questionnaire to the children's teacher with objective of investigating the students' performance after the developed activities, as well as to fill out a record of each child's observation. All the data were analyzed qualitatively and the results pointed the emergency of we understand in a holistic context, people, while builders of the thought, and that these, will make use of your citizenship as responsible professionals for your practical wisdom under direct influence of the school feedback". We verified that the children in general obtained an important and significant pledge in the items socialization, cooperation, followed by discipline and auditory perception.