A educação infantil no cotidiano da pré-escola pública em Rio Verde: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The purpose of this study whose title is: “The Infantile Education on the daily of public preschool in Rio Verde”, the following question is pointed out as a problem: Is the public school of infantile education offering the opportunity of interaction among the children looking for their biopsycosocial development? The objectives are to know reality of the psychoeducational of the children on the daily infantile education and analyze, through observations, the interactions developed by the children on different activities realized on the educational area. The study object was a kindergarten class belonging to a public institution in Rio Verde-Goiás. This school helps 121 children. Among them 26 participated in the class with about 3 hours a week during the year of 2002, totalizing 92 hours of observation. This theoritical analysis is based on Vigotski’s theory and it is about the mediation that happens in the classroon referring to the interation of the children with other children and the teacher. It refers to the rights that all the children have when they are at school, to partake through changes of experiences the different waysto acquire culture. The school has the responsibility to encourage and add opportunities to the children to make them express themselves with vivacity and develop and enrich their lives while going to school. In this research as a methodological procedure, the qualitative research was opted, modality “case study” (André, 1995). The study reveals that the school still show the traditionalistic character. This is shown by the constant collections of discipline impost on the children. It shows the overloaded rotine by the repetitives and boring pieceworks without attractivie to the children. It also shows the lack of opportunity given to teachers, to use pedagogical resources, which are scarce, to promote knowledge. It also shows the inadequate graduation of the teachers, source of worry, because as determined by the law LDB/96, the professionals to work on infantile education must have attended the college now that the psycosocial development of the children in this age is very important to their success on high school.