The book that the reader has in hand, aims to present the contributions of playful activities to the acquisition of knowledge in Early Childhood Education, taking into account the problems that involve the integral formation of the child during the teaching-learning process. As well as suggesting playful alternatives to work with the children during classes in a creative and pleasant way, making the student develop in a spontaneous and integral way. Knowing that playful activities should be part of the routine of a classroom, since in Early Childhood Education, there is a need to propose a playful approach in the planning of classes to work with the various axes in the modality of childhood exploring the skills of the child, as well as offering better subsidies in the development of skills and abilities for learning in Early Childhood Education. In this perspective, it is intended to reflect about the relevance that playful activities have on children. It is essential that playful activities are (re)known by educators as a resource for the stimulation of knowledge that facilitates learning in all aspects.

Ana Célia Carvalho Ferreira, hoogleraar, is afgestudeerd in filosofie en pedagogie aan de Universidade Federal do Piauí. Postdoctoraal in de Psychologie van het Onderwijs en Afrodescendant Cultuur en Braziliaans Onderwijs. Master in de Filosofie/UFPI. Onderzoeker bij de Nucleus van Onderzoek in Onderwijs en Pragmatisme en de Nucleus van Onderzoek in Neurowetenschappen en Onderwijs/UFPI.