A educação das crianças nos primeiros anos de escolarização

Abstract

Early Childhood Education is the first stage of Basic Education, being very important for the development of the human being, as well as for the other stages in the students' school trajectory. It is during this period that the child comes into contact with other cultures and experiences new experiences. Therefore, the study sought to understand the main challenges faced in child development, highlighting the different conceptions of child and childhood built throughout the historical process, as well as the guarantee of the right to education of children present in Brazilian legislation, in addition to understanding the caring and educating as processes that must be experienced inseparably in spaces destined to the education of these children. The interest in the theme arose from observations made during the Supervised Internship in Early Childhood Education in a municipal day care center. This is an exploratory bibliographical research carried out in a qualitative perspective, based on official documents related to education, and on the contributions of theorists who study the subject. The results of the analysis of the information demonstrated the historical changes that occurred in relation to the concept of child and childhood, that Early Childhood Education was not recognized and institutionalized as it is currently, and also that the terms care and educate strongly discussed today, not always were understood as inseparable processes in the education of children.