Abstract

PERBONI, Fabio; FARIAS, Alessandra Fonseca  and  NOGUEIRA, Isadora de Souza. Teacher education in the early years of schooling: a comparative study between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. J. Pol. Educ-s [online]. 2021, vol.15, e83188.  Epub Apr 09, 2022. ISSN 1981-1969.  https://doi.org/10.5380/jpe.v15i0.83188.

This article is part of a network research called "Basic Education in Latin American Countries", which is dedicated to the investigation of different educational policies developed in several countries, focusing on the Mercosur members. The cut proposed here focuses on teacher education for the early years of schooling, with three frontier countries as the loci of investigation: Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. With a qualitative approach, the investigation has in the documentary research its main source of data, analyzed in dialogue with the production of the area on the theme. We consider the historical similarities between the countries analyzed, resulting from their colonial formation and their insertion in the international market on a peripheral basis. The research starts by questioning the training models for teachers of the initial years of compulsory education in the three countries. In the last decades, neoliberal policies have advanced over educational policies, both in Latin America and in central countries. In the case of teacher education, it can be observed that the characteristics of these countries remain similar, with compulsory schooling beyond the initial years of schooling and the definition of various possibilities for the early years teachers education with a growing presence of private entities for this supply.

Keywords : Teacher education; Early years teachers; Teacher education policy; Education in Mercosur.

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )