Pimentel, Gilka SilvaCosta, Flávio Gomes Campelo da2025-02-052025-02-052024-12-18COSTA, Flávio Gomes Campelo da. O jogo e o brincar: estratégias de desenvolvimento da criança. 2024. 30 f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Pedagogia EaD) - Centro de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Currais Novos, 2024.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/62481The study highlights the importance of play and playful activities in early childhood education for children's learning and development, emphasizing the teacher's mediation through methodological practices. It employs a document analysis methodology based on texts from the pedagogy course and references authors as theoretical support to substantiate claims related to the topic under study, such as Kishimoto (1993, 2011); Brougère (2001); Ariès (1981); RCNEI (1998); Maluf (2003); Vygotsky (1984); Soares (2010), among others. The document concludes that the playful aspect is crucial for children's cognitive and social development and that playful activities should be integrated into early childhood education to promote balanced and natural development. The analysis reflects the methodological strategies employed with games and play in educational contexts, which foster individual emancipation and build social and cultural values through innovative education.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/CriançaChildLudicidadePlayfulnessBrincadeiraGameDesenvolvimentoDevelopmentbachelorThesis