Abstract

BRASIL, Ive Carina Rodrigues Lima  and  GALVAO, Afonso Celso Tanus. Escolha profissional na perspectiva de professores de educação infantil. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2012, vol.37, n.02, pp.321-335. ISSN 1984-6444.

This qualitative and exploratory research aimed at investigating the underlying reasons for the professional choice of teachers who work with early education. 17 teachers (7 from public schools and 10 from private schools) were interviewed in depth in a semi-structured manner. Questions concerned the reasons that guided participants’ professional choice. According to the results, the main reasons for choosing to work with children were associated with love for children, family influence, opportunity, idealism, enchantment and special talent to work with children. Some of the interviewees’ had working with children as a professional option consciously made, whether others were merely taken by the circumstances. Stereotyped views of the profession (feminine profession) are also addressed.

Keywords : Early Education; Professional Choice; Teacher’s Education.

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