The role of the body in learning and development of the Child

The body and direct experience are the basis for learning of each one; it is necessary to start from them to generate knowledge. The school environment must be a welcoming place, capable of supporting and stimulating, where the teacher has a decisive role, as it has the possibility to involve children by providing creative and motivating notes. The school, even today, does not always reserve space for movement, understood not only as a didactic discipline to be performed during programming hours, but as a habitual practice, constant and repeated, transversal and applicable in everyday life. The literature review, carried out through the analysis of studies on preschool and school children, was used to scientifically verify the benefits and support that the body is able to offer, both for normotypical and disability, Confirming how motor skills, associated with appropriate movement, are to determine improvements in cognitive, physical, social and emotional.