As práticas pedagógicas para a infância na escola do campo

Abstract

This monographic work of the Postgraduate Specialization Course in Field Education had as object of study pedagogical practices for childhood at the country school, developed by the teachers of Early Childhood Education of Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental Marino Eleotério do Nascimento. The research was carried out with the purpose of confronting the theoretical discourse and the lived reality in an environment of experiences of teachers who work in a country school. The specific objectives were contextualize the process of institutional care for young children; identify how the educator performs his pedagogical practices. The research supported a qualitative research which resulted from an action research that carried out pedagogical workshops with the educators. Another instrument of data construction occurred through the observation of classes of Child education and of questionnaires applied to the teachers and to the school manager. The data collected were analyzed using the Bardin (1977) content analysis method. As theoretical reference, the authors' academic contribution was used which deal with the theme of Field Education and Early Childhood Education. The results showed the ignorance of the educators in relation to the documents of the policy of Early Childhood Education, and consequently pedagogical practices in general at odds with them, which points to the need to construct a proposal of pedagogical practices focused on the reality of the field and in consonance with the documents of the National Curriculum Guidelines for Early Childhood Education.