Pais nas redes sociais: concepções e narrativas sobre a Educação Infantil

Abstract

The present research proposes a study about the theme “Parents on Social Networks: conceptions and narratives about Early Childhood Education. With the increasing use of social networks, families have turned to social media platforms to seek guidance, solutions, and help with the education of the children who attend Early Childhood Education. In this sense, such a study has a research problem to investigate what parents, users of Facebook groups of Early Childhood Education, understand about Early Childhood Education. Thus, the methodology of research used is qualitative with bibliographic, documentary, and field research. The bibliographic and documentary research had as source works, articles, dissertations, theses, and federal documents related to the theme, which helped to build the theoretical framework of the research. Firstly, the study conceptualized family, child, childhood, and early childhood education, covering the social history of the child and family from the Middle Ages to the present day. Then, sought to address the role of Early Childhood Education, discussing the process of building their educational identity, as a space for the integral development of children from 0 to 5 years and 11 months of age. The production of data from the field research was carried out from an online questionnaire with open and closed questions, which was published in three groups of Early Childhood Education on Facebook. From the responses produced with the questionnaires, three categories of analysis were organized, using the perspective of content analysis from the considerations of Bardin (2009), a discussion that makes up the fourth chapter of the work. It is concluded that the answers obtained from the parents in the questionnaires, still bring aspects of an Early Childhood Education focused on assistance, and thought in a way to be preparatory for Elementary Education, which refers to historical aspects of Early Childhood Education. Also, this study enabled a better understanding of what families understand about Early Childhood Education from the point of view, of subjects who are at the same time on both sides, being - family and school. This research recognizes the importance of the interaction between the family and the school, so that both institutions enable all children to have what is rightfully theirs: quality education.