AS ABORDAGENS DO CONHECIMENTO NA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: UM ESTUDO A PARTIR DA PRODUÇÃO BIBLIOGRÁFICA BRASILEIRA.

Abstract

This research, based on the search line of “Education Society and Culture”, aims at understanding the discussion on the approaches of knowledge in early childhood education, considering the final works presented during the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPEd) in Group Work No. 07 (GT07) “ Education of Children from 0 to 6”, recognizing that the Association is a scientific production locus that reverberates its researches in initial and continuing teacher’s training throughout the Brazilian bibliographic production in the form of journal articles, book chapters and communications in academic events. Thus, we had as object of study the debate on approaches to knowledge in early Childhood Education. The relevance of this work is justified by the need for the field of early Childhood Education itself discuss the relationship between child and institutionalized educational process. In this perspective, this research constitutes a study based on what has already been produced on the subject in relation to other prerogatives: a) Functions and purposes of institutionalized education of children from 0 to 5 years and 11 months of age; b) Childhood as the life time of the subjects addressed in this education; c) Culture as human social practice; d) Experience as a necessary condition to assert the possibility of being narrated; e) The curriculum and content as the pedagogical field objects. It is evident that these categories are not mutually exclusive, nor repel each other, but they are mutually offering clues to think critically the knowledge towards children in kindergarten. It is emphasized that this work is a bibliographical research with content analysis . It has, as a method of study and understanding, the Dialectical Historical Materialism since this allows us to apprehend the object of study located in the social contradictions that permeate the tensions between inclusion and exclusion of children in the appropriation of knowledge. This tension is but one logical emblem that guides society when it comes to understanding the place of the subject and the area of systematized knowledge. For this analysis, we considered the relations: past-present, part-whole, universality-uniqueness, history-historicity, movement, dialectics and inconsistency. As to the theoretical framework to route the data analysis, the survey sought input on different conceptual approaches , which are articulated in the apprehension of the research object, such as: a) Education of Children represented by ROCHA (1999 and 2008), in conjunction with the studies of KRAMER (2001, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2010) and BARBOSA ( 2008 and 2010); b) Historical-Cultural Psychology from Vygotsky (1998 and 2000) and PRESTES (2012); c) Crítical Theory in dialogue with Adorno (1985), HORKHEIMER (2000) and Marcuse (1978); d) Sociology of Childhood from CORSARO (2009 and 2011) and SARMENTO (1997 and 2005); e) Cultural Studies in the context of materialistc production WILLIAMS ( 1979, 1992, 2007 and 2011).