Precocidade na educação infantil: e agora professoras?

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the conceptualization of earliness among teachers of children education, as well determine the place that the child, characterized as precocious, occupies in this school stage and which are the resources used for their educational care. Through theoretical survey, mainly in CAPES periodicals, it was observed the existence of 6 studies between theses and dissertations produced in the last ten years about earliness in high abilities/gifted; and all of them were focused on psychological concerns instead of pedagogical ones, thus justifying the need for this research. In such sense, this qualitative research had as subjects, teachers from a public school of children´s education. The data collection was performed through a semi-structured interview. The data analysis was developed in the proposal of content analysis, with the production of three tables which expose the narratives of the teachers about the five categories which contextualize this work: formation, the role of child education, the role of teacher, the evaluation and the meaning of earliness. After studying the data collected was considered that the teachers recognize the child as precocious through their conceptions on capacity, talent and ability, as well as, they perceive more the singularities of students learning in academic area.