O fim da primavera: notas sobre a formação de professores da infância no solo pandêmico

Abstract

This essay primary objective is to discuss the training of childhood teachers during COVID-19 pandemic times, as well as to think in new ways to garantee the comitment, in higher education, to the quality of the initial teachers formation. The discussion involves the studies and researches developed over the years in the Group of Studies and Research in Education, Childhood and Critical Theory (GEPEITC), at the State University of Londrina, and in the Group of Research and Studies in Inclusive Early Childhood Education (GEEII), from the State University of Maringá. The methodology is a bibliographic and despriptive study on the surrounding theme, mainly with regard to the teacher formation in the higher education level using emergency remote education. As a result, the concern with the meaning of teaching in Higher Education is disclosed, as well as the referrals directed to the students in the Pedagogy Course who are in initial training for teaching in Early Childhood Education with children up to 5 (five) years old. In times of uncertainty, which were caused by the current context, there is the essay propagation of induced changes in the educational field, through a new modality of teaching and training, which, in a way, has generated new demands that need to be considered in in favor of an emancipatory teacher training.