PARENTS' MEETING: RESEARCH-INTERVENTION IN A CHILD EDUCATION SCHOOL

Abstract

This article, the result of our master's thesis, aims to present how the parents' meeting is conducted in a Municipal School of Early Childhood Education located in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The subjects are a teacher, who teaches children from 3 to 4 years old, and two mothers. The methodology used is qualitative, of the intervention type, and the data collection instruments are observation of meetings led by the teacher, semi-structured interviews with the mothers. It is concluded that the parents' meetings in this Kindergarten School can be moments of exchange between the school and the families. The importance of the active participation of family members was attested, both in improving the meetings and in the pedagogical work carried out with the children. The fact that the teachers are open to change was essential for the effective dialogue between the school and the family to happen democratically.