Playful Education: didactic games in the mediation of knowledge

Abstract

The article in question is the result of activities carried out within the scope of the extension project Educação Lúdica: didactic games in basic education, whose objective is to provide students of the Faculty of Letters Dalcídio Jurandir (UFPA/Altamira) and teachers of the basic education network subsidies for the use of didactic games both in Portuguese language classes and in other subjects. The theoretical foundation includes authors such as Comenius (2001), Brougère (1998), Santos (2001), Lauand (2003) and Almeida (2013). The methodology consists of conducting a course that covers theoretical aspects of playful education, knowledge of various types of didactic games through pratical experience, elaboration of replica of the games presented and creation of new games. From a script containing the necessary requirements for the development of a didactic game, the course participants chose a topic as a teaching objective, selected the materials and made their own games. To finish, there was a conversation circle to reflect on the experiences lived during the course. The positive reactions of the participants point to the relevance of the initiative in providing teachers with subsidies for the use of didactic games in their teaching practice. Among the various games worked in the course, the Morfominó game is presented here, designed for activities related to the study of suffixes that indicate augmentative and diminutive suffixes in the Portuguese language.