Reflexões sobre a formação de docentes da e para a Educação Infantil

Abstract

This article aims to analyse the training of teachers in early childhood education, using statistics on the education of these professionals, characteristics of the courses which they take and results of recent studies on the place of early childhood education in curriculum matrices of Pedagogy courses, in which these professionals must be trained, in accordance with the National Curricular Guidelines for Pedagogy Courses. Attention is also drawn to factors, which, in the view of the authors, are essential in the training of teachers, for the quality of the childhood education offered in the Country. Considering the problems identified by several authors on the dispersion of the object of the Pedagogy course, defined in the resolution of 2006, which renders the offered training fragmented and superficial, a proposal for a curricular matrix for undergraduate education was proposed as a provocation for debate. The matrix was built with the intention of training early childhood education teachers, trained to care for and educate children in nursery schools and kindergartens, according to the National Curriculum Guidelines for Early Childhood Education.