Reflection on practice in mathematics training for preschool context

Abstract

We believe that teachers’ personal and professional development can and should be encouraged by reflection and questioning routines about their own pedagogical practice. This is essential to a critical appropriation of scientific, pedagogical-didactic and contextual knowledge that outline any meaningful educational act. In this paper, we describe the formative methodology adopted in the subject Didactics of Mathematics for Preschool Context in the Master Degree in Preschool Education of a private higher education institution. The description starts from the real contexts in which the students developed the Supervised Teaching Practice and as a result of the systematization of the learning experiences developed during that time, this experience privileged reflexive processes of academic and professional nature and enabled a (re)definition of strategies and practices for further educational intervention. The analysis of the implemented practices and narratives produced by these students points to this methodology as facilitating critical-reflective capacities development, both in terms of (re)construction of logical-mathematical knowledge as of praxis (re)configuration, and therefore, of professional development of these future teachers.