O cuidar e o educar: entrelaçamentos na educação infantil

Abstract

The present Course Completion Work (TCC) was developed from the theme “Caring and educating: intertwining in early childhood education”. The theme emerged from the perception of the devaluation of the hybrid pedagogical work experienced in the Non- Mandatory Internship in a private institution of early childhood education in the city of Goiânia, Goiás. The research presents an account of the historical trajectory of early childhood education, passing through its first constitutions to the models currently formed, as well as presenting the inseparable relationship between caring and educating, permeating the formation and integral development of the young child. For the methodology of this study, exploratory research was used with the technical procedure of literature review. The results obtained here indicate that Early Childhood Education has faced several transformations in its role over the centuries, in some periods prioritizing the assistentialist function and in others the educational function until it finds itself in the current constitution in which the integralization of education and care must be guaranteed, in public and private educational institutions, as they are inherent elements, without hierarchy and prominence that can ensure a complete pedagogical proposal committed to the integral formation of children in early childhood education.