FOR NA EMANCIPATORY CHILDREN’S EDUCATION

the time and voice of children and their teachers

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to share the results of the work conducted with children aged 0-3 years, in three municipal day-care centers from São Bernardo do Campo, State of São Paulo, Brazil, as part of a PIBID subproject “Present and past games:children and their production of cultures”. Based on Paulo Freire’s ideas and other studies about children education, this paper presents the knowledge acquired by teachers throught a dialogical instruction process, emphasizing the educational practice and its challanges by closely observing children and how they interpret the world. Collectively, such process has enabled teachers and students of Pedagogy, to better understand not only how boys and girls interpret the world, but also how they interact among themselves. This has required teachers to deal with multiple children languages, learning with them and teaching them by means of the construction of emancipatory education.