Teaching practices in tension: pedagogical falsettos’ production by teachers of the Early Childhood Education and the Elementary Education

Abstract

The present article provides part of results recorded in a doctoral research (Cruz, 2019) carried out by one of the present authors. The aim of the research was to understand and analyze what mobilizes teachers in their teaching practices when it comes to working with reading and writing from Early Childhood Education to the first year of Elementary School. The current article discusses contradictions and tensions linked to SME-Rio’s discipline matrix propositions, since it aims at guiding the pedagogical work associated with orality, reading and writing in pre-school and in the 1st year of Elementary School. The study followed the qualitative research approach and was carried out in two pre-school classes and in one class of the first year of Elementary School. The study was substantiated by Mikhail Bakhtin’s work, which supported the research design and the field-material analysis. The research highlighted gaps and discrepancies in discipline matrix propositions at the assessed education stages. Literacy, and Reading and Writing learning, are herein understood as inseparable, but they appear separately in different documents, with little emphasis on discursive issues. Pedagogical falsettos are among the ways teachers take to face tensions and contradictions when they point out the compliances and mismatches in discipline matrix guidelines.