2014-12-042013-09-29FERREIRA, Ione Mendes Silva. O (a) Professor da educação infantil e sua formação: contribuições das produções acadêmicas do centro-oeste. 2013. 222 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2013.http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/3735This study is linked to the Formation, Teacher Professionalization and Educational Practice line of research in the Postgraduate Program in Education, at the Federal University of Goiás and also to the Network of Researchers on Teachers of the Brazilian Midwest (REDECENTRO). This paper analyzes the research on preschool teachers carried out in the Brazilian Midwest between 1999 and 2007. The underlying theoretical methodological framework is a materialistic historical dialectical one (MHD). It was assumed that analyzes based on this theoretical framework could point towards certain transformations for the field of childhood, early childhood education and the formation of teachers for this field. Using the materialistic historical dialectical method, a documentary research and a literature review were drawn up which set out to understand the concrete and contradictory movement of our object in its socio-historic totality. A critical analysis was undertaken of possible contributions for the field of childhood, early childhood education and the formation of teachers in the field offered by research on Midwestern preschool teachers. When the inherent potential of this theoretical framework for clarifying what is real and for proposing a new transforming synthesis was considered, it was found that the research on Midwestern preschool teachers indicated the need to think out proposals for the formation of teachers involved with this educational phase with a view to overcoming the historical reductionism and determinism still included in the understanding of the child, childhood and early childhood education in this region.application/pdfAcesso AbertoMétodo materialista histórico dialéticoEducação infantilFormação de professoresMaterialistic historical dialectical methodChildhood educationTeacher formationCIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAODissertação