A avaliação da aprendizagem na educação infantil: uma análise crítico-reflexiva da Revista Nova Escola

Abstract

In the quest for understanding the many concerns about the evaluation of learning, this research had as its goal to investigate the benefits which the evaluation of learning in Primary Education, normally propitiates for the educators and for the children involved in the process. For this, we opted to analyze, through bibliographic and documental research, the perspective of authors with regard to the concepts of learning evaluation, the reflection around the subject and the available related articles in the Revista Nova Escola [New School Journal] between the years of 2006 and 2011. This paper is structured in three chapters. In the first chapter we discuss: the concept of Primary Education from the historical aspect; Primary Education in Brazil confronted with the advances, the challenges and the Public Policies; it talks about Primary Education and Evaluation focusing on Brazilian educational legislation. The second chapter presents the most variable concepts of evaluation in the perspective of the authors focusing on: the theoretical and practical concepts of learning evaluation in Primary Education; the work of the teacher with regard to the evaluation of learning in Primary Education emphasizing the importance of the process of evaluation in Primary Education and its usefulness for the development of learning especially in children of 0 to 5 years of age. The third chapter presents, as a parameter, an analysis of the articles in the New School Journal from 2006 to 2011 which talk especially about the evaluation of learning in Primary Education based on a critical-reflective analysis. After analysis and reflection about the articles of the New School journal, the discussion and the results obtained through the object of research showed that the traditional evaluation is still present within the educational institution, but changes are being revealed by the actors who feel a need to reconstruct the evaluation process.