A indissociabilidade do educar e cuidar na educação infantil

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the importance of the binomial educating and caring for the development of children in Early Childhood Education, examining how pedagogical practices can be structured to promote this inseparability. Early Childhood Education is the first stage of Basic Education, aiming at the integral development of the child in its physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects. For a long time, children were not even understood as subjects, but rather seen as miniature adults. However, it was with the enactment of the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the Statute of the Child and Adolescent in 1990 that children began to be considered as subjects of rights. To guarantee the right to education for children from 0 to 5 years old, it is necessary to understand that the binomial educating and caring is inseparable, since it is this inseparability that guarantees practices that involve both attention to the basic needs of children, and the promotion of learning that provides the development of cognitive skills, psychomotor and socio-affective aspects. In addition, this binomial must be worked on in an integrated way, because according to the perspectives of Lev Vygotsky (2007) and Henri Wallon (2010) on educating and caring, both have a fundamental role for the integral development of the child. Methodologically, this work is characterized as a field research, with a qualitative approach of exploratory character. For data collection, a structured questionnaire was used that was answered in person by the teachers of a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education (CMEI), located in João Pessoa/PB. Thirteen (13) teachers working in Early Childhood Education participated in the research in classes from nursery to pre-II. As a result, the research pointed out that the teachers understand the importance of the relationship between educating and caring, in addition to indicating that both need to be worked together in pedagogical practices, indicating that they recognize the inseparability of the binomial educate-care. As final considerations, it is pointed out that the objectives were achieved, as it was possible to verify that the teachers have knowledge on the subject of the inseparability of educating and caring.