ADVENTURES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: PROPOSAL AND ANALYSIS OF A COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE
IN CONTINUING EDUCATION
Adventures; Teacher Training; Physical Education; Childhood.
Given the growing debate on Adventure Bodily Practices in the context of school Physical Education and the way in which the National Common Core Curricular has excluded young children from access to this bodily practice, this dissertation aims to understand the collaborative processes developed with Physical Education teachers in a continuing education course focused on the thematization of Adventures in Early Childhood Education. More specifically, we conduct an integrative review of the literature on the topics of Adventures, Early Childhood Education, and Teacher Training, verifying which concepts have been adopted in the field of school Physical Education; analyze the potential of collaborative continuing education, carried out in a university context, for addressing the thematic proposal Adventures in Early Childhood Education; and identify potential didactic and methodological solutions that emerge from collaborative continuing education for the thematization of Adventures in Early Childhood Education. To this end, we adopted a qualitative and exploratory approach to investigate teacher training and its potential interlocutions with the field of Adventure and Childhood, combining two methods: Integrative Literature Review and Collaborative Action Research. The Lilacs, Scielo, Redalyc, and Capes Periodical Portal databases were consulted, and based on the defined inclusion criteria, 28 articles published between 2020 and 2025 were selected. Twenty-nine teachers participated in the continuing education program, and data were collected through questionnaires, online forums, reflection sessions, workshops, photographs, and filming. In both cases, we analyzed the data using content analysis. Currently, we do not have concrete results, as this is an ongoing investigation.