Ser professora de educação infantil nos CMEIS e pré-escolas de rede municipal de ensino de Concóridia, SC: uma contribuição para o estudo das representações sociais sobre o trabalho docente

Abstract

This study aimed to verify if the professional practice in different institutions (CMEI or schools) interferes teacher´s representation in Children's Education about their work in the city of Concordia-SC. It was used as theoretical framework, the social representations theory, created by Serge Moscovici and as a support to understand the specifics of the investigated field, it was used a vast literature on childhood education, especially the ones produced in Brazil. 97 teachers who work with children Education in the city of Concordia participated in this study, hence, out of these 97, 32 work in pre-school classes and 65 in Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education (CMEIs). The instruments used for data collection were the Free Association Technique words (TALP), a survey to categorize the participant´s profile and a questionnaire developed specifically to investigate the objective in case, in which the filling of the items resulted in the composition of a letter where the teachers clarified and advised a friend about his work (questionnaire letter). To accomplish the TALP, it was used the following words inducers: daycare, preschool, child, teacher and play. This technique allowed to formulate hypotheses about the contents and structure of Social Representation. In order to analyze the data produced in TALP, the aid of the software Iramuteq (Prototypical analysis) was required. Five issues examined in the questionnaire letter made possible to verify that, schools as well as CMEIS teachers say their tasks are the activity planning, observation and children assessment, highlighting the play as the most important part in their work and they worry about the ethical and affective dimensions of their relationship with the children. The results obtained with TALP show that the familiarity with the idea of teacher and Children‟s education is made possible by approaching the ideas of playing and learning, education and knowledge and emphasizes three aspects of the teacher education in early childhood education, anchored in the representations of good professional, learning and child, which are linked together through the idea of responsibility, education and knowledge. Early Childhood Education teacher´s representation also highlights the importance of the game, playfulness and care, yet it is felt like it's not very clear to the participants the meaning of care other than the physiological needs and the integration between play and learning is. Taking in consideration this study only allowed to analyze some of the data obtained with the questionnaires, it is believed further clarification will be achieved when all analyzes are made.