THE RESEARCH TRAINING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: FOUNDATIONS AND PRINCIPLES.

The ideas presented in this article are related to the foundations and principles of the research training as a research modality. The question that leads the discussion undertaken is: which ways and possibilities of carrying out the research training with Early Childhood Education teachers for having the human training as a base? To produce information that could create conditions to clarify the constitutive processes of the pedagogical practice of Early Childhood Education mediated by the playing practice, study object of doctoral thesis, a methodological path was developed based on Dialectic Historical Materialism and on the Historical and Cultural psychology. Based on these foundations, we have defined as principles: Critical reflection on the practice with its theoretical foundations; Analysis of training needs as mediation for the critical reflection and condition for the professional development; Creation of situations of contradition for the production of joyful affections about the training and about the practice development; Production of what is new on the practice development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]