Primeiros anos da carreira docente: diálogos com professoras iniciantes na educação infantil

Abstract

This study focuses on the early teaching career in Early Childhood Education (ECE). In acknowledgement of the specifics in the first stage of Brazilian Basic Education and understanding that the early career is fundamental to the career path of teachers, it aims to understand the formation of early teaching career of women teachers who have their first professional experiences in ECE. This study is structured by bakhtinian theoretical­methodological principles (BAKHTIN, 2003), It contextualizes the development of teaching in Early Childhood Education in Brazil and the complexity in the early career, dialoguing, thus, with the concepts of teaching knowledge (TARDIF, 2002) and professional development (MARCELO GARCIA, 1999). The approach is qualitative and exploratory type and is based on the dialogic interaction principle (BAKHTIN, 2003). It presents individual and collective interviews with a group of women teachers in the second year of professional experience in ECE as the source of data production. In this context, the dialogy guides the analysis of utterances from the teachers about early career, in order to understand the experiences of new formative processes. The analysis of the resulting data indicates that the early teaching career in Early Childhood Education occurs amid complex conditions and employment transitions, in which reside the main difficulties for professional development. Parallel to the difficulties encountered, the learning of teaching in ECE occurs through the development of partnerships with more experienced teachers and also by recognizing the needs of care and education of each child. It is therefore evidenced that the beginning teachers reformulate their teaching perspectives and ways of know­make in terms of specifics surrounding each context in which they operate.