Educar crianças pequenas para valores : uma práxis impregnada de cuidado

Abstract

The present paper, performed in the Graduate Program in Education at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and linked to on line search Person and Education, has as its main theme the education of young children to value through a praxis impregnated care. Accordingly, the aim of this work was to understand the importance of a values education offered at the Institution of Child Education Santa Luiza, in which I work, at the time, as a director,through a praxis of care in its dimensions: (self-care, care of others, care of nature and care of a superior relationship ), based on the supreme value: love. The theoretical contributions on Education for values were sustained by Silva (1986), Chalita (2001), Pérez Serrano (2202) Delors (2006) and Pérez Esclarín (2007) and on care in Caring Program productions of Belo Horizonte, the Gomes da Costa and Oliveira Lima (2002), the theories of Waldow (1998, 2004) and JunqueiraFilho (2003, 2005). Methodological approach utilized the principles of qualitative research, a descriptive interpretive (Triviños, 1987), and as a technique for data collection was Rodas de Conversa, based mainly on Warschauer (2001, 2004). As a result of the research was able to show, through the speech of young children, the importance of educating them to values, causing people to become autonomous and supportive, able to develop attitudes of care with themselves, with others, with the environment and with the cosmos and strengthened its relations intrapersonal and interpersonal.