TEACHER TRAINING IN CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN THE MUNICIPAL NETWORK OF RIO DE JANEIRO: an analysis of education policies on ethnic-racial relationsKeywords: Ethnic-racial relations; Early childhood education; Teacher training.
This paper aims to analyze the training elements for professionals in early childhood education in the Municipal Education Network of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on the appreciation of in-service training through the Pedagogical Journeys, and in the light of theoretical discussions from the perspective of an anti-racist education. Schools, considered as a social instance, have the responsibility to review their pedagogical project with a view to training citizens who respect and value the diversity present in Brazilian society. In this sense, it is of extreme importance to invest in the initial and continuing education of teaching professionals so that they can equip themselves with knowledge to transform their practice. The research focus aimed to reflect on education for ethnic-racial relations and early childhood education, presenting a brief history of early childhood education in the national and local contexts, as well as the transition process of this segment of basic education between the Departments of Education and Social Assistance, thus being part of our theoretical and methodological path, and the creation of training policies for professionals working in daycare centers and Child Development Spaces (EDI) in the mentioned education network. As part of the theoretical and methodological path, we also conducted a review, inspired by the state of the art, on academic productions that dialogue with the theme of this research with a time frame of the last ten years. As a referential, we consider the contributions of Antonio Novoa to address teacher training, and to reflect on education from a decolonial perspective we will use the studies of Catherine Walsh. We will dialogue with Lucimar Rosa Dias' studies to deal with early childhood education, and it is hoped that these studies will subsidize us by pointing out contributions. In order to seek answers to the problematic, the research is structured from a qualitative perspective and for data collection, a semi-structured interview was used with the managers of early childhood education who have held the position in the last ten years, and the analysis of the Pedagogical Journeys. From the triangulation of the data collected we will make the analysis in order to seek answers to the problems listed. We have noticed advances in research in the field of early childhood education and ethnic-racial relations, we have a theoretical framework that has been increased in recent years, research has pointed out the importance of dealing with racial issues in the segment of early childhood education. For this, it is of great importance that the professionals who attend to early childhood have a powerful knowledge about plural cultures, have a sharp and sensitive vision for the ethnic-racial problematic in Brazil and in the world, and incorporate this knowledge for a transformation of the pedagogical praxis.