Undergraduate licentiates and early childhood education: challenges in initial teacher education

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Simone Maria de Bastos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/318
• topic: Undergraduate courses. Teacher education. Early childhood education.; Licenciaturas. Formação de professores. Educação infantil.

This article presents findings of a research project conducted during 2014 about the relationship between undergraduate initial teacher education and the knowledge acquired in three undergraduate programs in early childhood education. The goal was to determine whether curricula have subjects discussing certain questions regarding early childhood education, as well as to problematize initial teacher education and identify challenges in teaching young children. Overcoming fragmentation in the knowledge acquired in initial teacher education and determining the necessary knowledge for teaching children requires breaking with stiffened curricular structures that concentrate efforts on the knowledge of specific areas without clearly educating for teaching.