Abstract

This study looks into syllabi and bibliographies courses related to Early Childhood Education in the initial training courses in Physical Education, identifying their points of convergence and divergence with guiding documents of that first stage of Elementary Education in Brazil. It is a documentary study conducted on 16 syllabi and their respective bibliographies (267) of 14 Physical Education Schools of public universities. Data were systematized by the Iramuteq software. Conceptions of childhood and organization of pedagogical work present in the analyzed syllabi and bibliographies differ from the assumptions recommended by the National Curriculum Guidelines for Early Childhood Education and by the National Curricular Common Base. A biologic/universal vision of child development prevails in the documents analyzed, based on Developmental Psychology and Motor Behavior authors.

Keywords
Childhood education; Teacher training; Syllabi; Bibliography