O portfólio na formação docente como espaço de produção curricular na educação infantil: o PROINFANTIL em Mesquita - RJ

Abstract

This present master thesis has as its object of study the curriculum of the inicial training program for practicing teachers in early childhood education (PROINFANTIL/MEC). Aims to investigate and analyze the production of that curriculum and this teaching program in the city of Mesquita/RJ, between the years 2009 to 2011. This training program has its text curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education, the federal level, is developed in partnership between states and municipalities, with the participation of multiple subjects active in working with early childhood education: educators at community crèches, nurseries and pre auxiliary of municipal schools, teacher educators, teachers, tutors, university professors, representatives of federal, state and municipal governments, among other actors. The focus of analysis is the portfolio - assessment tool and written record of the course curriculum - built by the teachers participating teacher students, perceiving it as a place of production dynamics of early childhood education curriculum, woven amid a group of relationships in the process of teacher training, creating different meanings to curricular issues. The theoretical basis for dialogue with this research are the studies of Ball (2006), Bhabha (2007), Macedo and Frangella (2007), which bring fundamental discussions about the cyclical production of curriculum politics, woven through the processes of cultural hybridization and constant negotiations. Teacher training and curriculum are understood here as buildings uninterrupted between/in the negotiations of the various subjects involved, among various contexts of early childhood education.