A produção do conhecimento em políticas públicas de educação infantil na região centro-oeste (2000-2010)

Abstract

The present work main purpose is to develop analyses of academic production in the Brazilian Midwest region concerning \"Public Policies for Early Childhood Education\" between 2000-2010 in order to understand the State of the Art in the field of Children Education Public Policies in the said region, describing and revealing the multiple approaches and perspectives of the researches. To this end, we opted for the type of research called State of the Art, which focuses on performing the mapping of academic and scientific productions, analyzing aspects of research in order to contribute to the consolidation of certain area of knowledge. The main considerations accomplished at the end of the research refers, firstly to the amount of production in that area which totaled thirteen works, allowing us to state that such thematic, in quantitative terms, lacks research in the Midwest. This, relates to the healing process while this field of knowledge. The presentation of scarce numbers of jobs may be related to the incipient character of lines of research focused public policies and also the Early Childhood Education Programs in Graduate Education in the Midwest. Regarding the analysis of the contents covered in the theoretical basis of the work that made up our research sample, we observed as the predominant trend investigative situations that interfere with the effectiveness of early childhood education. Thus, there were recurring themes in the work, which referred mainly issues related to the historical and legal processes of early childhood education as well as the financing and interference of international organizations such education stage. These themes were important to theoretically support the debate on Public Early Childhood Education Policies, justifying achievements, challenges, advances, as well as historical, social and economic contradictions from different eras, which interfered in the educational field. In addition, the face of these problems there was an extended debate in the dissertations, which proved essential for the formatting of early childhood education as belonging to the school systems. The themes mentioned above all to local public policy - state or municipal; the Inter-sectoral and integrated policies; the influence of international organizations in education; the realization of children\'s rights Early Childhood Education; the funding of early childhood education policy; and finally, the interference of Ong OMEP in kindergarten.