Reflexões sobre os desafios atuais da docência na educação infantil, a partir de Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The purpose of this manuscript is to analyze three foundations or presuppositions for early childhood education in the present world based on the thought of Hannah Arendt: authority in general and that of teaching in a specific way; tradition as the social function of the school in sharing values in its curriculum matrices with the new generations coming to the common world at birth; Narrative thinking as aneveryday storytelling activity within the classroom to present the world we live in to children. We used the research methodology of qualitative approach of basic nature with procedure of bibliographic research (books and articles by Arendt and his commentators, besides expert authors of the science of education). The result is the definition of the concepts of authority, tradition and narrative thinking and their axiomatic relationship to the teaching practice in early childhood education in the current world. The main conclusion is to show that the formalization of authority and tradition by narrative thinking allows a more democratic school.