Abstract

PFEIFER, Luzia Iara  and  ANHAO, Patrícia Páfaro Gomes. Body perception of preschoolers children: a psychomotricity purpouse. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2009, vol.1, n.1, pp.155-170. ISSN 2175-2591.

The objective of this work was to discuss the importance of the psychomotricity activity on the development of body perception (image and body scheme). Participated of the research four preschoolers children (ages between 04 and 05 years-old). Initially it was asked the children to draw themselves (picture of human figure) in a clear paper. Then it was performed many psychomotricity activities to stimulate body perception. At the end of practice, the children had drawn themselves again. The psychomotricity activities were analyzed highlighting the aspects that they stimulated, like body scheme and space orientation. The draws of human figure were compared among the initials and the finals for each child. The results demonstrated that the psychomotricity activities contributed to the good development of body perception verified in increased details of final draws.

Keywords : Psychomotricity; body perception; human figure draw; preschoolers.

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