Stretching horizons: “The playground is where there’s a piece of the sun”. Learning how to understand and listen to children

Abstract

The article was prepared based on the Memorial for the completion of the subject “Mandatory Internship in Early Childhood Education”, its objective is to synthesize the accumulations discussed in groups, record the memory of an initiation into teaching and raise reflections based on written and unwritten texts, related to the discipline. In this, the authors seek to highlight their training paths based on field records, but also to articulate them with the main categories of analysis that emerged during their studies. The approaches used dialogue with children's rights, as well as with the documents used for analysis, such as the Early Childhood Education Curriculum of the Florianópolis Municipal Education Network and the Curricular Matrix for the Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations in Early Childhood Education. Attention and pedagogical intentionality are categories highlighted as fundamental for learning to know and listen to children.