Atendentes de desenvolvimento infantil se formam professoras: um olhar sobre o curso normal superior fora de sede da Uniararas

Abstract

This research has the objective to understand, under the view of former students, the contribution of the Curso Normal Superior Fora de Sede [Early Childhood Education Graduate Program Outside the Campus] (CNSFS)named Programa Especial de Formação Pedagógica Superior [Special Childhood Education Graduate Program], by Hermínio Ometto University Center (Uniararas) which provides graduation for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) in the teaching network of the City of São Paulo from 2005 to 2007. The Program relies on the former teaching experience of non-graduate professionals in the public teaching network enabling them to achieve their graduation in the course of two years, with a setting of 2.800 hours which is equal to programs that offer graduation in the course of three years. 12 teachers, former students from this Program, collaborated with the research answering an application and being interviewed. The analysis of the data relied on a reference about distance education as long as the course is attended outside the campus and the graduation of educators. The data revealed that the course contributed to the personal lives of the students as long as to their Professional development, especially in the way they performed their work with children in their workplace.