Children with Disabilities and the Importance Ofplaying at Recess in School

Abstract

This paper presents theoretical reflections on a pedagogical intervention project carried out between 2018 and 2019, aiming to analyze whether the introduction of games at recess in a public school in the Educational system of Juiz de Fora could promote the inclusion of children with disabilities. The study was based on the correlation of bibliographic, documentary and empirical sources and the construction of data relied on observing children playing and having informal conversations with teachers. Both actions were recorded in a field notebook. The children's process of organizing themselves autonomously in the recreational games would be a possible reality through a more prolonged intervention process, since the kids' interest in playing was manifested even without the mediation of the teachers, as well as their initiative of including those ones who had diagnosis of Down syndrome.