The important role of early childhood education units for the benefit of children

Abstract

This article aims to reflect and discuss the history of day care centers, as well as their importance for contemporary society. Many changes have occurred in the history of education and what can be highlighted here is that the child today is seen as a subject of rights and as such, needs to be respected in relation to his time, his culture and even in his difficulties. The daycare center with its professionals needs to be prepared to receive these children and work with them in a dynamic and creative way. The family also plays a very important role, as it is known that the first education comes from home. It is the family that is responsible for the values and for all the baggage that the child has since he arrives at an educational institution. Another important point to highlight is about the professional training of teachers, which does not end with the diploma, but extends throughout life, challenged by concrete experiences and hence the importance of continuing education programs for all teachers, to stimulate the renewal of knowledge in a collective and self-motivated learning environment. It is known that education should be focused on the formation of responsible citizens, committed to their generation, which, in turn, has been the product of scientific knowledge and its technological developments. Continued pedagogical training in early childhood education is necessary, which means taking a new look at current educational needs. In this sense, the problem question to be covered was outlined: In what historical context did daycare centers emerge in Brazil and how was the understanding of the formative importance of the teacher made, taking into account the passage from assistentialism to caring and educating? To this end, the theoretical contribution of Haddad (1989), Oliveira (1988), Angoti, Antônio Nóvoa, Libâneo (2001), Kullmann (2000) was used.