As visões que familiares de um CMEI, da cidade de Natal/RN, têm sobre o papel das docentes de educação infantil

Abstract

This article aims to analyze if the views that family members of children from CMEI Professor Antônia Fernanda Jalles, from the city of Natal / RN, have on the role of teaching in early childhood education is related to the Brazilian social imaginary about the identity of women in education. For data collection, the semi-structured interview method was used with eight relatives of children from CMEI. From the reports of these family members, it was possible to analyze the discourses from three axes that permeate early childhood education and that are present in our society, such as the welfare view of early childhood education, linked to women; machismo, but also the empowerment and struggle of the female class for the valorization of work, causing some changes in the thinking of society.