Educação em ciências na educação infantil: o que dizem as produções teóricas da área de ciências?

Abstract

The following paper is a bibliographic research with a qualitative nature, whose objective is to investigate the theoretical production about the Sciences in Child Education. In order to accomplish that, an online research on several scientific magazines which deal with Sciences and Education and on the IX ENPEC with the intention of locating articles which were published between 2010 and 2015. Eight papers were identified, and analyzed following these categories: (a) the themes and subjects adressed in the articles, (b) the research's character , (c) nature/methodologies used in the research, (d) conception of Child Education and Childhood, (e) methodological proposals. Starting with the analysis, was concluded that the majority of the researches found discuss Sciences in Child Education emphasizing aspects of the pedagogical practice on child from zero to six years old. The topics focused in the works were mostly descendant from the Biological Sciences. It is worth mentioning that the vast majority of the papers were developed in Child Education contexts, understanding the childs as subjects of the research. Some of the analyzed papers highlight the value of providing the access to the Sciences in different languages, taking the specifics ways of expression in childs aging between zero and six years old into consideration.