TEACHING MATHEMATICS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FROM AN ETHNOMATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE: MULTIPURPOSE TEACHER IN FOCUS
This report's main objective is to bring to light the directions made in ongoing master's research that aims to reflect on the training and performance of teachers who teach mathematics in the initial years of Elementary School (EF), here called polyvalent, in which the researcher herself as a multipurpose teacher. It presents as its central theme the relationship of the multipurpose teacher with the teaching of mathematics and the possible needs and possibilities starting from the initial training of this professional and considering, specifically, a trend in mathematics education that is ethnomathematics. The theoretical bases of this research are based on studies on the professionalization of teaching work and teacher training, based on reference authors in the area, combined with proposals related to ethnomathematics. The methodology used will be qualitative research, with pedagogical meetings held by the researcher as a space for data collection in her work as pedagogical coordinator at a public municipal school in the ABC region. The data collection instruments proposed by the researcher involve: 1. questionnaires to PE teachers aiming to collect data that allow mapping the profile of these teachers. 2. written and audio or video records obtained from pedagogical training to be proposed as an extension action to be carried out in the School Unit where they work. Data analysis will be carried out based on these records and will be under construction after your organization. What is expected as a contribution from the research is to create support for the discussion about mathematics teaching and the multipurpose teacher, so that they can look critically at the beliefs they have, which affect their didactic-pedagogical choices taken into the classroom. It can also contribute to teacher training programs, especially for the continued in-service training of teachers involved in research and in the School Unit, enabling them to develop a more civic-minded and inclusive classroom practice from a multicultural and ethnomathematical.