Early Childhood Education in Teresina, Piauí state, Brazil: teacher’s training profile

• Published in: Fineduca Vol. 8
• Main Authors: Sandra Regina de Morais Cunha Rodrigues, Luis Carlos Sales
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associação Nacional de Pesquisa em Financiamento da Educação 01.12.2018
• Subjects: política educacional. educação infantil. valorização docente. perfil formativo
• ISSN: 2236-5907
• DOI: 10.17648/fineduca-2236-5907-v8-87394

This article presents a study on the profile of the baseline education of Early Education teachers from Teresina, Brazil. It considers the requirement of the National Educational Bases and Guidelines Law (LDB 9394/1996) concerning the minimum training required to work at this level of K-12 Education. The study comprised the universe of 2,342 teachers who worked in the public and private system of this city. It was used a quantitative approach based on the microdata of the K-12 Education School Census from 2017, available on the INEP website. The microdata collection and the subsequent statistical analysis were performed by means of SPSS. The research showed that despite the progress, the teacher’s training profile is diversified. However, considering the percentage of teachers who already had taken and were taking a degree in Pedagogy, an improvement of this training profile can be projected in the short- or medium-term.