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    Representações de creche e de educador de creche por profissionais pioneiros da educação infantil
    (2005) SOCORRO DAVID, Maria do; ALVES-MAZZOTTI, Alda Judith
    This research had as objectives: a) to rescue the history of "Vila do Céu", one of the first communitarian day-care centers of a poor neighborhood located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, through the memory of the founders b) to identify the meanings attributed to day-care center and its educators by these professionals. The theoretical framework used in this investigation was the processual approach of social representations developed by Serge Moscovici and Denise Jodelet, and complemented other theoreticians who work in this field The adoption of this modality implied the use of a number of strategies centered on the exploration of the word as a process that can be approached by the consideration of the different levels that articulate and actualize themselves in the free association of words, themes, ideas and recollections. The word as a process was considered in the free association test, in the narrative interviews in the analysis of documents as well as in the observations made by the researcher. Seven out of the ten members of the original group of "Vila do Céu" day-care center, and the technician of the City Department of Social Development who supervised them, were interviewed. Results indicated that the history of "Vila do Céu" was marked by a series of struggles and conquers. It was "heroic times", in which the fight for day care centers in areas "deprived of everything" seemed to require the drive of "active minorities" rather than the competence of certified professionals. The commitment and the effort of the pioneer group guaranteed the respect of the community, what contributed to school/family close relations and to a positive image of the profession, two aspects that are essential to the work of educators. As to the representation of day-care center constructed by the participants of this study, it is objectified in taking care, what is consistent with dedication, the most salient element amongst those attributed to day care center educator. This representation is anchored on the historical practices of the group recollected by its memory.