Infância e criança : um estudo em representações sociais com professores de centros de educação da primeira infância – CEPIs / DF

This study aims to analyze the social representations of childhood and child of teacher education centers Early Childhood City / DF. Therefore, we proceeded to a polimetodology approach based on the Theory of Social Representations (MOSCOVICI, 2011). The generation and data analysis was done in three moments. Firstly, we characterized the participants to identify their social, professional, and the group's profile. Secondly, we sought to identify the elements of social representation, using free association technique, and "child" and "child" as inducing words evocations. The analysis revealed elements for the play, love, joy, development, learning, care, life stage, love and freedom. Using the analysis the framework of the four houses of Vergès, we had observed that the core contains evocations related to "play" and "love." The intermediate elements refer to the context (school) and the reminiscences and childhood brands. Evocations related to the personal experiences of the teachers had highlighted at peripheral system, which protects the core. The third study, was trying to understand the dynamics of representation, were two focus groups. The analysis revealed that the existence of intersection can defining two categories, around which the different meanings circulating in the representations of the teachers are highlighted: the childhood (based on teacher‟s the experiences) and games (also based on experiences and communications and daily exchanges between them). During discussion, teachers are constructing the representation of themselves and their childhoods, considering the child as a "come-to-be" (culture in the development of culture), because of the changes they perceive in everyday teaching. The representation of "play" and "love," which prevails in the core of representation and is imbuing the everyday childhood education from beginning, combining teacher‟s experiences, acquiring more sociological connotation attached to the society, which strengthens the "preservation of children's cultures."