Obei at school: learnings built through the study and interpretation of everyday situations

Abstract

This text is the result of experiences in the early childhood education teacher training course at the Observatório da Infância e da Educação Infantil (ObEI). This is an experience report on the training program called ObEI na Escola, which has taken place monthly since April 2022 with childhood researchers, Early Childhood Education professionals and Pedagogy students. The differential of this Program is the analysis of everyday situations in schools through studies and theoretical deepening. In this way, the text has a qualitative basis, in which we seek to report the contributions that this training program has provided to the students of the Pedagogy course, which took place from their participation as course participants and extension monitors and from the analyses, studies of the themes and discussions raised during the course. Among the contributions, we highlight the possibility of thinking about Early Childhood Education centered on the interests and development needs of the child, listening as a guiding principle for relationships and transitions, for organizing time and spaces, and for building experience contexts that promote interaction and play.