Políticas públicas para a educação infantil a partir da redemocratização do Brasil

Abstract

This Final Paper consists of a research work entitled “Public Policies for Early Childhood Education since the re-democratization of Brazil”. In this way, its object of study is the first stage of basic education and its general objective is to analyze the main changes and advances developed in the trajectory of public policies in the scope of early childhood education since the redemocratization in Brazil. For that purpose, this work uses a qualitative research methodology based on Lima and Mioto (2007) and Minayo (1992) and a documentary research methodology based on Cellard (2010). Therefore, this research has, in addition to bibliographical research, the analysis of laws, such as Law n. 8.069/1990, which provides for the Statute of Children and Adolescents, Law n. 9.394/1996, which establishes the National Guidelines and Bases for Education, and Law n. 13.005/2014, that approves the National Education Plan. In that regard, it is also worth noticing that this work comprises the historical context of early childhood education based on Kuhlmann (2000), Priore (1991) and, also, presents connections between education, early childhood education and democracy, considering the Brazilian legislation and the Federal Constitution of 1988, legal framework for the country's redemocratization. Furthermore, this work also comprehends the main contributions of public policies for the development and learning of children. Based on this and on the analysis carried out, it is concluded that, in fact, there have been many advances regarding public policies aimed at early childhood education. Nevertheless, there is still much to fight and claim for these public policies to be actually effective and reach this stage of basiceducation in its entirety.