SENSIBILIZANDO PROFESSORAS DE CRECHE: A ESCUTA DE BEBÊS NO CONTEXTO DA PANDEMIA

In this article, we present an excerpt from our Professional Master's research defended in September 2022. It was guided by the following question: How to sensitize educators, in training moments, so that they advance in listening to babies? The general objective was to verify how teachers' awareness of listening to babies in a day care center occurs in the context of the pandemic. The universe of the research was a Municipal School of Basic Education located in the municipality of São Bernardo do Campo/SP, which caters exclusively to the nursery stage. The methodology used was of a qualitative nature and as instruments for data production we resorted to the life narratives of two teachers and the assistant in education of a Nursery class, as well as three proposals agreed together to raise awareness in listening to babies, in addition to the analysis of teaching records through logbooks, life books and individual reports, with regard to listening in the different phases of school attendance during the pandemic period. All material produced was analyzed in the light of Laurence Bardin's content analysis. The theoretical framework was based on authors of Critical Pedagogy. The results indicate that, for the teachers to effectively listen to the babies, they need awareness and ongoing training in service, in order to base their positions in defense of the principles present in participatory pedagogies, with theoretical knowledge about the importance of listening, as well as reflective partnerships who also relate to babies inside and outside the institution.