Cuidador ou educador: a busca pela (re)construção da identidade de educadores da educação infantil.

Abstract

This monograph has as research question: How is being constructed the professional identity of teachers of Early Childhood Education? And to answer this question we elaborated the following objectives: Analyze the construction process of professional identity of the teachers of Early Childhood Education; identify the profile of professionals who work in Early Childhood Education; reflect the changes occurred in relation to the professional identity of teachers of Early Childhood Education; discuss the presence of male teachers in Early Childhood Education. The discussion of teacher professional identity of Early Childhood Education has been the subject of numerous reflections in different areas of knowledge.Thus, studying this thematic enabled us a different look at this issue, because we got some clues to think about the construction of teacher identity, considering the specifics of their function and how it is seen by societyso he can see you in that place of childhood educator. In the methodology we work qualitative research from a semi-structured interview, considering the case study with a teacher, of the male gender, who works in Early Childhood Education classroom. We conclude that this work, to prioritize the construction of the professional identity of teachers of early childhood education, enables us to understand the challenges that arises in contemporary society routinely, especially with regard to the recognition of this subject as a professional with knowledge and practices specific in the educational context.So, we can say that the changes in the Basic Education afforded significant advances in relation to specific aspects of professional educators.