CONCEPT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO MATHEMATICS

Abstract

This text was based on a wider research, which had as main goal to identify the main theoret-ical and methodological contributions that substantiate the academic productions which consider pedagogical proposals and practices for day care centers and preschools, in a particular way, regarding the mathemetical knowledge appropriation. Document base was produced within the scope of a technical cooperation between the Ministry of Education (MEC) and Federal Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). For its accomplishment, the content analysis was used. The cultural-historical theory fundamentals and the activity theory were overall taken as theoretical frameworks. The results indicate similarities and divergences between the above mentioned theories and indicate the use of different theoretical frameworks that sometimes are complementary and ocasionally are contradicting.