A IMPORTÂNCIA DO JOGO SIMBÓLICO NO DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL

Abstract

This paper describes the importance of the symbolic play in children's development. Such approach is justified by the value that it adds to the children's development. The aim of this research is to highlight how the symbolic play or the make-believing games can contribute to children's cognitive, emotional and social development and also to show that institutions of Early Childhood Education are responsible for stimulating a better development of the symbolic play- one of the symbolical interpretations found in the Symbolic Function. This purpose will be accomplished upon academic research. It can be verified that it is necessary that institutions of Early Childhood Education value playful activities, games, drama, places for make-believing games, toy rooms, costume corners, sensory rooms among others, because it is at those moments that children can create, represent, imagine, putting adults' rules aside and living their own way.