Recomendações metodológicas para o ensino da natação visando o desenvolvimento infantil

Abstract

This study starts from the following problem: How to use swimming to help the child's development? To this end, we aim as a general objective of the study, Analyze in the journals how to use swimming to help the child's development, emphasizing what is recommended for each age, as specific objectives: a) Analyze swimming as a content that helps in child development ; b) Identify the concept of childhood, its stages of development, the importance of motor development from swimming, recognizing its own body and its possibilities, relating the stages of development with the foundation of swimming to be taught; c) Propose methodological recommendations about teaching swimming, aiming at the child's development. The methodology used was a qualitative research of bibliographic nature. As a result, we observed that swimming can be practiced from an early age, some studies claim that after three months, she can accompany the child throughout his life; improving your proprioception, appetite, quality of sleep, motor development, among other benefits. To do this, we separate the ages by phases and select the one that, according to the literature, is the most suitable for each phase.