SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.61 issue1The senses of the community: A memory of neighborhood and intergenerational buildings in community studiesFour young, one social project: Spaces of (un)meetings author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

article

Indicators

Share


Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia

On-line version ISSN 1809-5267

Abstract

GALVAO, Afonso Celso Tanus  and  BRASIL, Ive. Challenges of early education teaching: Teachers' perspectives. Arq. bras. psicol. [online]. 2009, vol.61, n.1, pp.73-83. ISSN 1809-5267.

This qualitative, exploratory research investigates the type of knowledge, as well as the profile necessary for early education teachers in the perspective of the teachers who work with that segment. Using semi-structured interview, 17 participants (10 from private and 7 from state schools) were interviewed at length. Participants emphasize knowledge about children in general and particularly about their developmental phases as fundamental aspects which orientate the quality of the work undertaken. They also consider playing as pedagogical resource as an important learning device. Notwithstanding, underneath to all of this is a working practice that privileges affective relationships as a base from which all pedagogical action should be built up. Concerning the profile, respondents consider the loving of children as fundamental requisites. Such view of early education helps consolidating old stereotypes associated to the profession (eg. female profession, motherhood) which disturb the professional development of the segment

Keywords : Early education; Teachers' education; Teachers' expertise.

        · abstract in Portuguese     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License