Infância e memórias de professoras de educação infantil

Abstract

The present research, which aims at childhood and the memories of young education teachers, bases on the following question: how are childhood memories related to the young education teachers’ practice? It was taken as a starting point for the childhood conceptions brought by Ariès. After that, some ideas on the manuals developed by Erasmo were pointed out – Puerile Civility and by Jesus Company – a Ratio Studiorum, and by Comenius – the Magna Didactic as well as the Neil Postman thesis on the supposed disappearance of childhood. Psychoanalysis dimensions were chosen as one of the references for the interpretation of the collected testimonials. For such a task, the text Totem and Taboo from Freud was considered along with the discussions about possible relations between psychoanalysis and education, specifically the Oedipus complex and docence brought by Kupfer, Lajonquiére, Pereira and Millot. The research was characterized as qualitative, with oral history and interviews followed by the transcriptions. Some