Geometria na educação infantil: formação e saberes necessários à prática pedagógica

Abstract

This research entitled "Geometry in Early Childhood Education: training and pedagogical knowledge necessary to practice" is linked to the research line 2-Training and Professional Practice Pedagogical Faculty of the Master's Program in Education Unoeste of Presidente Prudente - SP. Aimed to analyze the knowledge of teachers in order to identify the theoriesthat guidethe teaching of Geometry in Early Childhood Education. A descriptive qualitative research approach involving action research-type intervention. In this investigative process intervention walked together to investigative practice, practice and reflective educational practice. The data obtained was analyzed by content analysis. The study was conducted at fortnightly meetings with kindergarten teachers of a private school in the city of Presidente Prudente. During the activities the teachers were able to identify the concept of early childhood education, content and methodology worked as well as the relationship of these data with the pedagogic approaches to teaching in kindergarten, with documents such as the National Curriculum Reference to Education Children and the National Curriculum. Teacher training was analyzed as well as the knowledge of geometry that make your practice and starting points that served as support, rose data that could determine the basis on which rests the work of teachers with geometry. These bases indicated that the actions of the teachers are not directly linked to documents, initial training, or educational guidelines they receive, but are built from the readings that teachers make their classroom practice, embodied in the reference training basic, and that according to the theory of van Hiele are still at the basic level in tending to level 1.