EDUCAÇÃO DAS CRIANÇAS PEQUENAS

a formação dos professores no curso de pedagogia

Abstract

We understand that the construction of knowledge by future teacher for children of 0 ‑6 years old should be guided in a concept of Popular Education permeated by assumptions of a liberating education, establishing close relationship between practice/theory/practice as predicated among others by the educator Paulo Freire. As a result, the object of this research is to train teachers in Pedagogy courses, producing knowledge about the characteristics and specificities of the future teachers training for the referred age. It is based on studies on higher education, teachers training, curriculum and childhood. The objective is to identify and ana‑lyze the pedagogical purposes of Pedagogy courses for the education of young children, whose research universe is a Pedagogy course in a public high education institution, located in the city of São Paulo (SP), Brazil. The methodology applied is based on a qualitative approach and will adopt, as research procedures, survey and documentary analysis and interviews with semi ‑structured questionnaire for teachers and with open and closed questions for students. The partial results of the ongoing investigation presents how the political ‑pedagogical plan of the course conceives the formation of the pedagogue and what teachers and students think about the proposed curriculum, regarding especially the preparation of future teachers to work in early childhood education.