Educação infantil e matemática : concepções e conhecimentos de professoras que atuam na pré-escola

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Schaida, Lysania Frissélli Ferreira dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso; Brasil; Instituto de Educação (IE); UFMT CUC - Cuiabá; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação infantil; Educação matemática; Concepções; Conhecimentos profissionais; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO; Preschool; Mathematics education; Conceptions; Professional knowledge
• Link de acesso: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/304

In this study, we aim at understanding ―what are the conceptions and the knowledge related to preschool education and Mathematics in preschool education of preschool teachers?‖. In order to deal with the conceptions and the professional knowledge, will be on issues relating to Thompson (1997), Ponte (1992), Shulman (1986), Tardif (2002) and Mizukami (2008); with the cultural-historical theory, Vygotsky (2007) and Leontiev (2005); to discuss childhood, children and preschool education, Kramer (1995, 2011), Corsino (2009), Sarmento (2007, 2009) and Corsaro (2011); and, to deal with Mathematics education, Moura (2007, 2013), Lanner de Moura (2007) and Duhalde and Cuberes (1998). This study is based in a qualitative approach. Four preschool teachers from Vilhena, Rondônia took part in the research: two teachers from a kindergarten-only school, being one from Pré-escolar I (children up to 4 years-old) and the other from Pré-escolar II (children up to 5 years-old); and two teachers from a school that offers preschool education and also the first five years of primary school, being one teacher from Pré-escolar I (children up to 4 years-old) and the other from Pré-escolar II (children up to 5 years-old), totaling two different schools. To collect data, we used questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and pictures of activities. The data collected in this research were systematized taking into account Bardin‘s theory of content analysis and split into two thematic groups of analysis: (I) teachers‘ conceptions and knowledge of preschool education, subdivided in aspects related to the child, childhood, preschool education, learning, pedagogical practice and curriculum; (II) teachers‘ conceptions and knowledge of Mathematics in preschool education, subdivided in aspects related to Mathematics, Mathematics in preschool, learning, pedagogical practices and curriculum. From the discussion of the mentioned groups, we defined two categories of analysis: a traditional perspective and a contemporary perspective. The results indicate that teachers‘ conceptions and knowledge of preschool (group I) are in a possible shift, given the prominence of oscillation between the traditional and contemporary perspectives. However, in relation to teachers‘ conceptions and knowledge of Mathematics in preschool (group II), we identified that two of the five items analysis also point to a traditional teaching perspective. Therefore, we understand that there is no interface in relation to the conceptions and knowledge of preschool education and of Mathematics in preschool education. Facing these results, we argue that there is a necessity of widening teachers‘ knowledge of preschool education and Mathematics in preschool education, once this may enable, in the future, a possible resignification of the conceptions of these professionals.