A Educação infantil no Brasil: a construção da identidade do professor

Abstract

This text aims to understand the history of early childhood education in Brazil and reflect on the construction of the identity of the teacher in this stage of basic education. Reflection presented is characterized by a bibliographical research. Initially we had a balance of productions in the Theses and Dissertations of the CAPES on the identity of teachers of early childhood education. The research work had begun by the descriptor, history of Maternal Education resulted in the Union of 17 articles that allowed them a survey of three reflections that composes this text: 1 Conceptualizing child and childhood; 2 the institution of early childhood education; and 3 the professor of early childhood education. We conclude it is essential to make a reflection about the identity of professor of early childhood education in a historical perspective, because the story comprises the man as subject that transforms nature and produces himself. Through this historical research it was possible to understand why today many teachers of early childhood education live an identity crisis being a teacher or caregiver?