CHANGES ON INTERN’S TEACHING PRACTICES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATON

Abstract

This paper aimed to analysis changes of the intern’s pedagogical practice over the Supervised Internship in Physical Education on Early Childhood Education, using collaborative process. The research’s participants were two students of Physical Education matriculated on Supervised Internship II, from a public university of Minas Gerais state. Was used the simple self-confrontation after the first half of the internship and at the end. Beyond that, were used a semi-structured interview, participant observations and documental analysis. For prepare the data, was used the Content Analysis. The results showed that on the first half of the classes, the interns allowed an adultcentric view to planning their classes. For this, the interns didn’t include the children’s interests on the planning and they had been frustrated with the results of the class. With the collaborative process, especially between the firs and second halt of the classes, the interns could change the view around their experiences on Supervised Internship and the children’s behave. Also, they formed a practices repertoire with their successful experiences and mobilized it to propose changes on video’s activities in the last self-confrontation. It was concluded that the intern’s pedagogical practice was affected by collaborative process, that changed it in favor of the children’s interests.