Modeling in arts in childhood education: indigenous culture as a learning learning strategy

Abstract

This article aims to understand how playful tools, such as the modeling of objects of indigenous culture, enhance the teaching of Arts in Early Childhood Education, in a preschool school in Presidente Kennedy. The principles and concepts arising from the National Reference for Early Childhood Education are described, which describes the need for care, playful learning and the promotion of attitudes and values ​​for the child's social and cultural participation. The production is based on Vygotsky, to explain the cognitive and behavioral development arising from social relations and Oliveira, who discusses the use of modeling in the teaching of Arts as a pedagogical resource in early childhood education. Part of the premise that modeling uses objects from indigenous culture brings a pedagogical proposal that enables human development, considering that subjects become capable of developing cognitively and socially through the field of art and aesthetic experience. The results of the research allow to conclude that the work with modeling in clay, of objects of the indigenous culture, as strategy used in the teaching of Arts, helps in the integral development of the child, verified by the stimulus to the imagination, sensitivity, movements, gestures, creativity, socialization , also allowing the feeling of belonging to the world and the appreciation of indigenous culture.