EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL: tensões presentes na esfera do trabalho docente

The article presents results of a survey whose goals, among others, was to understand the tensions found in work developed in Early Childhood Education and the consequent loss of social prestige in the teacher’s career, interfering in his political identity formation. For this, it sought theoretical propositions to base the job while category as human ontological activity and actions that affect the world of work and the constitution of the political organization of the working class, in particular the teaching work in CE. The theoretical approach was grounded in the perspective of dialectical historical materialism and the methodologies used were necessary for the unveiling of the subject of study. The search was realized with 44 workers of CE in seven institutions located in the municipalities of Jataí, Serranópolis and Chapadão do Céu - Located in the Southwest micro region of the State of Goiás. The Research shows that fetishistic conception of the existence of small children, interferes in the work done by those workers, and this has not contributed to the consolidation of educational activities anchored in science domain in these institutions. The survey reveals the need and the possibility of worker, engaged in CE, assuming herself as a teaching worker, which requires extensive and solid knowledge about the specificity of the development of formative work