Educação infantil: aspectos políticos e jurídicos nos processos de intensificação do trabalho do educador infantil no município de Uberlândia /MG

Abstract

The present research is an exploratory study about the political and judicial configurations of Infant Education in the city of Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its objective is to approach the offer of vacancies in this stage of education in the Basic Schools in the municipal infant schools (EMEIs) and in the day care centers (NGOs), and also to discuss about the work conditions of the infant educators in the city of Uberlândia, MG, such discussion will be based on the philosophical and scientific analysis of the configurations of the world of the capitalist work. In order to achieve our objectives, at first we tried to identify the ontological dimensions of the work world that allow us to understand the deterioration of the teachers work. Secondly, we analyzed how the educational policies materialize in the public schools that were being analyzed and the implications of such policies in the work conditions of the infant educators. At last, we identified, through the analysis of the interviews, what the perceptions of the infant educations when it comes to their activities and their professional identity were. After this research, we consider that there has been a great advance in the offer of infant education in the city mentioned, especially after the Found of Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and of Valuing of Teaching (Fundeb). This quantitative evolution (verified by the number of registrations) was significantly subsidized by the offer of vacancies promoted by the partnership between the public government and the non-governmental institutions. However, in our opinion, this advance was not translated in better work conditions to the infant educators, as we found evidences of work intensification, in objective as much as in subjective dimensions of the deterioration of the teachers work.