Educação Infantil no contexto da pandemia: novas demandas para o trabalho e a formação docente

Abstract

This article aims to present a research developed with professionals who work in Early Childhood Education at the Municipal Education Network (RME, in Portuguese abbreviation) in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. We aim to understand the perception of teachers in this educational stage, regarding the teaching work and the training process in a period of pandemic caused by New Coronavirus (Covid-19). The quality of Early Childhood Education involves a human formation beyond the interests of capital, which transcends social inequalities and contributes to social transformation, and the reality experienced nowadays may have reinforced and accelerated several disassembles with attacks and setbacks in education, especially at the aforementioned level of education. In relation to the methodological procedures, we carried out a bibliographical study to highlight theoretical-conceptual constructs about the teacher training for Early Childhood Education. In order to investigate the process of teacher training at present context, we used a dialogic interview with RME teachers in the preceding city. In general terms, we recognized the need for schools and education departments to organize spaces and times to dialogue with professionals of this area, with the intention of identifying training needs.