Formação em contexto dos professores de educação infantil: Programa MAIS PAIC na CREDE 3

Abstract

The management case presented highlights the context training of Early Childhood Education teachers promoted through the Learning at the Right Age Program, MAIS PAIC, developed by the state of Ceará in collaboration with CREDE 3 counties. The problem’s choice dialogues with the professional and academic trajectories of the author as well as with the current role played by her of technical and regional trainer in the Education Axis of the Cooperation Cell with the counties (CECOM) at CREDE 3, which accompanies and provides technical-pedagogical advice through the MAIS PAIC program to the counties of Acaraú, Itarema, Cruz, Bela Cruz, Marco, Jijoca de Jericoacoara and Morrinhos, where the research was done. The mobilizing question was: What are the challenges and possibilities of the continued education in service offered to teachers working in Early Childhood Education promoted by MAIS PAIC’s Early Childhood Education Axis in CREDE 3 counties? The investigation considered the development of training actions from the perspective of local management based on the design proposed by the Program and has the general objective of deepening knowledge about the training path offered at the counties and the way in which the Early Childhood Education Axis actions have performed in the practice of the county network in CREDE 3 region. The following are the specific objectives: I) to describe the processes and stages of the MAIS PAIC training in the Early Childhood Education Axis, and the objectives and concepts that guide them in the CREDE 3 context; II) to analyze the management of continuing education actions for Early Childhood Education teachers considering the demands for which they are planned and the effectiveness of that policy having the context of the practice, the objectives and the guidelines given through the Early Childhood Education Axis of MAIS PAIC as reference; III) to propose intervention strategies in the training process of MAIS PAIC teachers in the counties of CREDE 3 that contribute to the effectuation of pedagogical and management practices in Early Childhood Education that correspond to state and national guidelines.