Acessibilidade / Reportar erro

"Pretend you've grown up": the transition process from Childhood Education to Elementary School

Abstract:

This research aimed to analyze the transition from Childhood Education (Educação Infantil - EI) to Elementary School (Ensino Fundamental - EF) from the teachers' and the children's perspective. The fieldwork was conducted in two phases: the first with a group of EI; the second with a group of EF, in which 4 of the 10 children followed in IE were enrolled. The procedures used were as follows: observation of the school day-by-day; interviews with the teachers and the children; documental analysis and questionnaire for the parents. The results indicated a lack of care regarding the transition. To the disarticulation and lack of continuity in the pedagogical work, children respond according to several tendencies: they adjust their behavior to the rules of the new school context, break them, ask to keep their playtime promises; some children externalize a psychic suffering, which the teachers react to in a shy manner. Based on the bibliographical review, it was possible to compare these results to other researches on the new EF, showing the recurrence of the issues found in our work. Therefore, the importance of discussing of articulation between EI and EF is reaffirmed from a Historical-cultural theory point of view, which indicates the need for debating on what our project for childhood really is.

Keywords:
Elementary school; early childhood education; school.

Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Escolar e Educacional (ABRAPEE) Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Escolar e Educacional (ABRAPEE), Rua Mirassol, 46 - Vila Mariana , CEP 04044-010 São Paulo - SP - Brasil , Fone/Fax (11) 96900-6678 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
E-mail: revista@abrapee.psc.br