Improvisation Games as Strategy for Education Welfare

Abstract

This study was designed to analyze how children engage with the proposal for improvisation games experiences, used as creative strategy in education for well-being within the leisure environment. The study of a qualitative nature was developed through bibliographic and field researches and it was used the observation technique as an instrument for data collection. It was part of the study a purposeful sampling of 81 children with an average age of 7 years and 10 months enrolled in Elementary School I of Green Book School, São Paulo, Brazil. The activities were performed during 6 practical classes with two 50-minute weekly meetings, in which children were players-actors in many thematic improvisations proposals using objects. The information resulting from observation has been written in a field journal and was later analyzed by categories, involving personal, collective and artistic levels of involvement and action. The results indicate that children showed great joy, wellness, motivation and pleasure in the proposed improvisation activities, showing good performance in three observation levels during the experiences. The improvisation games were presented as an interesting educational strategy during the construction and reconstruction of actions, through creativity, incorporating common and obvious elements, which are catalysts of new psychological, sociological and artistic processes.