Infantile education: a research path and indications for the evaluation of educational contexts.

Abstract

Starting from the presentation of the path of research of the Nucleus of Studies and Researches of the Education in the Small Childhood - NUPEIN (before NEE0A6), this text, published originally in 2002, it intended, to supply subsidies for the debate concerning indicators for the evaluation of educational contexts. In the first part of the same we looked for to recover a reflection on the character of the pedagogic research in the infantile education; on Monday, we traced the path of research of NEE0A6 (current NUPEIN), with emphasis in the researches accomplished around the theme of the teachers' of infantile education formation, with the objective of presenting the teachers' point of view and children, subject of the researches, and to indicate limits and perspectives of the activity in this area. Last, critical explicitamos built starting from the accomplished investigations, emphasizing relative aspects to the articulation between the investigation processes and the formative processes. Besides, we indicated some aspects that should be considered in the research process about evaluation of educational contexts as form of establishing indicators.