Reflexões acerca do profissional de educação infantil: habilidades e competências

Abstract

This work has as focus to investigate the competences and the professionals' abilities that act in the infantile education. Contributions of the bibliographical research were used as principal instrument, using contemporary authors Ariés, Freire, Varela, Arroyo e Perrenoud, that contributed with the theme. The bibliographical research evidenced that the Brazilian school reality seeks the professional's appropriate formation more and more - teacher and that his performance close to the children and to schools are decisive factors of the attendance pattern in any educational segment. The educational activity needs qualification, because the act of teaching demands predisposition for the constant learning. The professional should be capable to organize and to drive learning situations. It concludes that is necessary the pedagogic domain as essential factor for the competent and qualified professionals' preparation that promote and favor the learning through the competences and abilities that are based in the affectivity, generosity, simplicity and wisdom that the professional should possess because he needs to be an eternal child specialist, to understand through the study the human person's mystery and how it is presented in the first phase of the life: the childhood. It is believed that these competences and abilities turn the capable professionals for us to interact in social reality, in a committed changing perspective with the implantation of new conceptions of infantile education.