Being and Learning with Physical Education

XII SIEFLAS Leipzig 18-20 July 2016.This study aims at improving the understanding of the importance of Physical Education (PE) in the promotion of child education, through childhood play and sports games. These activities, from the curriculum of PE, help children to learn more and surpass their difficulties, through the acquisition of multi-dimensional skills (individual / social; psychomotor / socio-affective / cognitive), and so, to acquire an educational basis in their group and society. Our goal is to analyse the perception of the teachers about: the importance of PE, through the teaching of childhood play and sports games, to contribute to the development of children; the environment of PE teaching in infancy. The data were acquired through a questionnaire that was sent to Thirty-six (36) individuals (seventeen (17) pre-school educators, eighteen (18) elementary school teachers, one (1) specific PE teacher). Descriptive statistics (percentage of occurrences) were extracted from the questionnaires, and the data was processed with SPSS 20.0. In general, educators and teachers believe that the play and games offered in PE favors (advantage) the multidimensional development of children, allowing the acquisition of internal interdisciplinary skills and of external interdisciplinary skills. Educators prefer work with contents that promote body knowledge and the motor domain, cooperation, acquisition of self-confidence and respect for materials and equipment. Teachers prefer contents that promote the motor domain and physical health, acquisition of responsibility and attitudes – in skills of accountability and of socialization. In this study we are able to conclude about the perception of the importance of PE in contemporary childhood play, it is important in children education, in particular through the promotion of the development of social and emotional skills.