Children educators and their perceptions of the nursery roles: an inestigative study of the nurseries in the city of Maringá

Abstract

Historically, nurseries have had the responsability for day care and the provision of charitable assistance to children of the poorer communities. The nursery´s conception as an educational space rather than its original one as a place for assistance and keeping of children during role to a pedagogical one. The present study has had the objective of investigating the perceptions that child educators who work in the nurseries in the sity of maringá have about the nursery roles, It has also been investigated the teacher´s level of education and the type of activities carried out with children between 0 to 6 years old. In a first moment, a bibliographical survey was conducted on the role of child education and the teacher´s level of education needed to work in nurseries. Secondly, interviews with nursery teachers an empirical observations of the activities in the nurseries in Maringá were carried out. Analyzing the data collected it was possible to conclude that child educators are in teachers are not aware of important aspects of child development.