Matemática na creche?: uma reflexão sobre as práticas pedagógicas em um centro municipal de educação infantil em contagem

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the potential of change in the practice of teachers who work in Early Childhood Education, when they participated in a proposal of continuous video formation, in the perspective of a collaborative research. The research was conduct in an Early Childhood Education Center in the municipality of Contagem, belonging to the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This study was developed through a qualitative methodological approach, in the perspective of a collaborative research. In order to achieve the objective of the study, we adopted the collaborative research and the following tools to collect data: semi-structured interview, data collection in the Political Pedagogical Project and in the functional data sheet of the professionals, participant observation, video recording of the practices and the children's routine and video-training. The research is based on the theoretical principles of Lev Vygotsky (1984), Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) and on authors that approach the reflective and collaborative teacher´s professional development (Ibiapina, 2007; Oliveira-Formosinho, 2002; Pimenta, 1996). The experience with the development of this research allowed us to conclude that the collaborative research integrated the university and the school; gave rise to formative processes in which reflexivity and awareness of praxis encouraged the participants to seek new perspectives on their professional work; made possible the greater participation and engagement of children in the work proposals; made possible the construction of a methodological teacher training script that triggers an initial process of reflection on the practice aimed at professionals with little training to work with young children; and finally the research brought notes about the construction of mathematical language as a possible tool for apprehending the world by the young child.