Banca de DEFESA: FLÁVIA FERNANDA FERREIRA DE LUCENA

MEMORIES OF TEACHERS: THE PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A QUALITY SCHOOL

Early Childhood Education; Educational Quality; Child Participation.

The present identification research, through the indications are identified by the children, has as quality of quality in the Infantile Education. We start from reports of children of teachers participating in the Mais Infância Program, in the Municipality of Niterói/RJ, who turn to children's manifestations about their demands, which, in a way, can change the routine of the school institution. The subject of this study involves a conception of the quality of the work proposed throughout its history, both in official documents and in praxis. It starts from the hypothesis that what is quality for the adult is not always for the child and, therefore, we ask: Do teachers identify what quality is for children? For this, we research the concept of quality as they are not universal, nor absolute, it is built daily, in the dialogue the subjects to whom only one is destined, being all considered as a collective result through several factors, they are structural, pedagogical or administrative educational. As research on this topic is recent, but it is evident that they are not important for the study of everyday life, children express themselves on this indicated topic, to adults who form in these themes of action, emancipation and autonomy. The weight is the need for the participatory dimension of children as co-participants in the educational process. Thus, the production and analysis of data was based narratives carried out with daycare and preschool teachers of a Municipal Early Childhood Education Unit (UMEI) in Niterói/RJ and revealed the potential of memories for children's participation in the construction of a quality school.