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Kindergarten. Pedagogy. Authorized knowledge. Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte.
The Kindergarten of the Educational Center of the Primary Teaching of Caicó (Rio Grande do Norte) was created during the government led by Dinarte de Medeiros Mariz and José Augusto Varela (1956-1961). Intended for children from four to six years of age, this kindergarten began its activities on April 4, 1960, guided by authoritative knowledge derived from objective studies carried out with children and based on active pedagogies. Articulated to the School of Application and the Normal School, two teacher training pedagogical models contributed to its institutional and pedagogical organization: the "utensil box" model and the "library science" model. Based on documentary sources (educational legislation, lesson plans, built sources, iconographic sources, magazines and pedagogical manuals, among others), the doctoral work is inserted in the theme "Kindergarten and Pedagogy". The objective of this study is to reflect the interrelation of early childhood education in this institution with the active pedagogical principles theorized by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel, Jean-Ovide Decroly and Maria Key Artemesia Montessori, as well as the guidelines of Pedagogy Nova systematized by John Dewey and Anísio Teixeira. The work is based on the school model theory, as well as on the school way of socialization, systematized by the historians Guy Vincent, Bernard Lahire and Daniel Thin (2001), because it allows to highlight the links between school and written pedagogical rationalization. The thesis concludes that the ways of teaching and educating in the school garden are articulated in a children scientific education, aiming to develop their natural and individual skills necessary for the formation of the personality, as well as habits and fundamental attitudes allowing the coexistence and integration in the community‟s social life. Thus, the Kindergarten of the Educational Center would be defined as a Decrolyano Garden, in which the child is prepared for social life while being educated.