Educação infantil: os desafios na perspectiva de professoras em um município da Paraíba

Abstract

Infant education that we have today is the result of countless conceptual and normative advances throughout history on how to meet the needs of young children outside the family. Early Childhood Education integrates the work of educating and caring considering social, family and cultural contexts in which a child is inserted, enabling interactions and practices with the most varied knowledge, aiming their development. In this context, professional activity in this educational stage is the subject of constant debates in the present time, because before there was the concern that these teachers had some specific training that would enable them to develop educational practices with quality in kindergartens and preschools, to meet the specificities of these children. Based on these understandings, this research is aimed at the child education teacher, identifying the challenges in his pedagogical practice. It aims to analyze the main challenges reported by teachers of Early Childhood Education of a public day care in a municipality of Paraíba. It adopts as a methodological procedure the field research of qualitative and exploratory approach, using a field diary, and a questionnaire as instruments of data collection. The analysis of the data was based on the information collected during the research and then confronted in the light of the various authors that address the theme, where it was possible to observe that the main challenges of the teachers refer to the pedagogical resources, infrastructure and pedagogical accompaniment. Despite the difficulties, they offer the maximum possible quality in working with children in the institution.