Play and cultural plurality: an exploratory study based on the National Curricular Parameters of art and physical education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if and how play, as a way to experience the transversal theme Cultural Plurality, is accounted in the document of Physical Education and Arts National Curricular Parameters (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - PCNs) for the 1st and 2nd cycle of the Elementary School. It was employed a qualitative methodology, in an interdisciplinary approach. Taking “play” as an indication of effective transversal relation among PCNs, the research seeked intersections between the documents “Art” and “Physical Education”. It was concluded that play and “ludo” activities may be tools to experience and to implement the transversal theme Cultural Plurality in schools, such as Education for Tolerance and teacher training, at all school levels.