A Ética do cuidado na educação infantil: um olhar diferenciado para a formação educacional integral da criança.

Abstract

A reflection on the educational development of children in Early Childhood Education related to the need to practice the ethics of care in making teaching in institutions of kindergarten viewing the formation of an adult in the future with building ethics into their personal and social action. The first chapter gives way to an ethics of care. To that end, considers ethical, moral and ethical distinction has ethical and moral construction of the child in kindergarten. Currently, it is clear that the concept of ethics is, by many, confused with the concept of morality. Understanding that is part of moral ethics, and ethical conduct is behavior that includes not only moral, but also the virtues and values, is one of the focuses in this chapter. Given the understanding of what is ethical and what is moral, we seek to understand the ethics of care, which presents its concept and its forms: natural and essential. Ends up, revealing the moral and ethical construction phase of the child in kindergarten through models displayed experienced. In the second chapter, there is a study directed specifically to children's education. After his concept, the story of a brief history brings out the thinking of some theorists who influenced the early childhood education, and Kohlberg, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Vygotsky, Piaget, among others. Then differentiates to educate caring, establishing the role of caring in children's education, the need for a properly trained teacher to work in Early Childhood Education, aware of its role and importance of caring for the play and play at this stage as well as the family's role in educational attainment of children. In the third chapter the emphasis is on the National Curricular References for Child Education. After presentation of reference, is directed a study on the concepts found in the references on what is presented on the philosophy of education, care, ethics, ethics of care, the desired profile for the teaching of early childhood education and family from the Early Childhood Education. Finally, the fourth chapter suggests, as viewed from the studies in previous chapters, make suggestions for Childhood Education focused on the ethical practices of care, a natural obligation, and essential, by necessity of its importance to the educational integral child in kindergarten, allowing the construction of a new adult in the future, by acting according to their ethical training.