ABSTRACT:
This article focuses on the teaching work in the field of early childhood education (EI), based on the research that thematized the family ‘s senses about EI and its resonances in work and teacher education. In the research, with a qualitative approach, procedures were developed to interview families that were in a queue searching vacancies in an EI public institution. With a Bakhtinian theoretical-methodological perspective, the analysis of the data concerning the meanings about teaching in the IE informs the meeting of a set of elements in the composition of the teaching work, including references to love, patience and kindness, as well as the affirmation of training requirements. As a result, in the constitution of teaching and search for vacancies in the EI, advances and challenges are simultaneously highlighted, in order to strengthen the development of a teaching profession, with emphasis on the right to formation and partnership with families, aiming to advance in the recognition and valorization of teaching work.
KEYWORDS:
Teaching work; Childhood education; Teacher training; Families