O RPG na educação: a constituição de processos educativos por meio da criatividade e interdisciplinaridade

Abstract

The growing need for updating the methodologies used in the classroom brings to light some viable alternatives to be used as educational possibilities. How problems are answered during the development of the work, according to the questions: How can RPG contribute to the teaching and learning process of children associated with early grades? Is role playing game an alternative to children’s learning processes? What are RPG’s contributions to children’s inventive and imaginative thinking? In addition, the objective of this work was do develop a roleplaying game, known as RPG, with four children from six to eight years old, belonging to the early grades, so that we could verify how to use the game in classroom, involving interdiplinarity, creativity and adding to it technological means to demonstrate how technology can be uses for education. Through the cartographic research method, an interview was conduced with the children, to verify their preferences of games and stories, and then the planning of the RPG to be developed, as well as a bibliographic survey of the researcher on the subject. The meeting with the children promoted an experiment on the gameplay of RPG as an educational possibility. Based on the results, analyzed through discursive text analysis, the game has proven to be a valid way of bringing inventive and imaginative thinking into the classroom, as well as a valuable helper to the learning process, contributing to the teaching and learning processes of the early ears’ children.