Ensino de ciências na educação infantil sob a perspectiva pedagógica de Maria Montessori

Abstract

The teaching of Nature Science in Early Childhood Education needs to occur in order to arouse the students' interest, as well as the teaching of all other curricular subjects. In this sense, this paper sought to highlight the contributions of the educational perspective of Maria Montessori, with the help of Cosmic Education and Freedom of Autonomy, which can be applied to teaching and learning processes in Early Childhood Education, in the area of Nature Sciences, considering that this is a methodology that has been little explored by our educators. For this purpose, a qualitative research was carried out, whose method for obtaining data was the elaboration and analysis of a didactic proposal about the Solar System aimed at Early Childhood Education. The data showed that the Montessori teaching perspective has a valuable dimension and its contributions to teaching in terms of Nature Sciences, as a vast and rich source of knowledge that can be used in Early Childhood Education, aiming to contribute to the learning and awakening of cosmic consciousness.