Formação docente para a infância: o legado pedagógico da professora Heloisa Marinho

Abstract

In professor Heloisa Marinho's personal files (1903-1994), located at Instituto de Pesquisa Heloisa Marinho/IPHEM, is possible to find documents/monuments that allow to think how was the preschool teacher formation in the first half of XX century. The pioneering in the actions of this educator is evident in the analysis of her professional trajectory, especially, in the Rio de Janeiro's Institute of Education/RJ teacher's formation, from 1934 to 1978 , in which was responsible for the creation of the pre-primary specialization course (1949). The research intends to investigate the formation processes starting from the student's reports of the pre-primary specialization course which was coordinated by the professor Heloisa Marinho. Among the researched documents, stands out 30 reports dated from the period 1958 to 1964 and the Specialization course program. The methodological approach chosen for this research was the qualitative research, using the orientations of the analysis of content. When was elected, in this study, the reports as the research object, was looking to think and revisit conceptions and educational practices related to education for early child teachers, and the socio-educative place that the child occupies in the time. The research's developments evidence that the ideas left by professor Heloisa Marinho, and how much this educator left marks and theoretical and practical influences in early childhood education and in teacher's education, still present nowadays