The Municipal Play Week began this Monday (22nd) and runs until next Sunday (28th) in São Paulo, with a schedule that includes open and free activities in public spaces such as libraries, unified educational centers and municipal parks. for children and the people who live with them. For most activities, prior registration is not necessary, just consult the information on the schedule on the week’s website. The municipal executive secretary for Strategic Projects, Alexis Vargas, said that the objective is for the whole city to participate in the activities. “They were designed in a joint effort, thinking about promoting fun, education, welcome and healthy development for the children of our city. The Play Week goes hand in hand with the other actions of the Municipal Plan for Early Childhood”, said Vargas. According to the Education coordinator at the Alana Institute, Gabriel Salgado, in addition to playing being a right of children and adolescents provided for in the Constitution, in Statute of the Child and Adolescent (ECA) and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child of the United Nations, which must be guaranteed to all, regardless of context, ethnicity and gender, the activity is fundamental for the integral development, emotional, social, cognitive development and for the construction of their subjectivity. Alana is an organization dedicated to promoting children’s rights and integral development, which encourages new ways of living well. “Social development begins when children recognize themselves recognizes its territory. It is through play that the child explores, solves problems and becomes an agent of change in the place where he is inserted, creating alternatives, solutions, paths, possibilities, exits. And she relates with herself, with others and with the world”, he explained. Playing is essential for emotional development, at the moment when she provokes herself to be and feel different things from playing. “For example , when playing tag, hide-and-seek, the child provokes himself to feel cornered, running away from a colleague, chasing someone, the feelings of being discovered where he is hiding. Playing makes this being and being in the world possible, being provoked by different types of emotions”, he added. For Salgado, the World Play Week is a great opportunity to draw attention to the importance of “free playing”, which is the action of play that is not necessarily linked to methodologically predicted or mapped learning. “It is a play that she can be outside of school or home, in parks, squares, recognizing her neighborhood, in the territory in which she is inserted, but with the maximum possible contact with nature and the environment.” Salgado emphasized that playing is the expression of the child’s maximum power in the world, the means by which he provokes adults, whether parents or guardians, to look at other forms of expression, beyond those to which they are conditioned and deal with in adult life. “It is an expression that may seem unpretentious, but it is the child’s way of expressing himself socially, psychologically, emotionally. It is a fundamental element to strengthen the bond with the adult and strengthen the elements that come with this bond”, he concluded.
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