O direito à educação infantil de qualidade: confronto entre o Plano Municipal de Educação de Uberlândia-MG (2015-2025) e a lógica privatista em curso

Abstract

This research, located in the line of research State, Politics and Education Management, has the general objective of analyzing and researching the realization of the right to early childhood education in the municipality of Uberlândia, based on the guidelines of the Municipal Plan of Uberlândia (2015-2025), quality indicators (2009) and the school inspection team. Specifically, neoliberal policies, the right to early childhood education in Brazil after the Federal Constitution of 1988, the concept of quality and early childhood education and the public and private relationship in early childhood education in the national and regional context were discussed. As a method, a qualitative approach was used and, as procedures, bibliographical, documentary and field research. For the field research, priority was given to the application of virtual interviews, from the Google Meet app, with a script of semi-structured questions, with the team of professionals from the school inspection, after approval of the research by the ethics committee. After transcribing the interviews, content analysis was used, with the organization of categories. The use of epistemological approach of dialectal historical materialism is also highlighted, which made it possible to ascertain the investigated reality, based on a critical reading of the social, economic, political and historical context, focusing on the right to quality education, identifying the contradictions existing ones, as well as apprehending the relationships between the micro and macro social aspects that mark the public policies involved in the teaching process of the municipality, mainly in early childhood education. The results were organized into five analysis categories: Participation and involvement in the Municipal Education plan; Pedagogical Planning and Political Project; Training and working conditions of professionals; Family involvement and the right to quality early childhood education. It is concluded that the right to quality education for early childhood education has not been implemented as proposed by the PME (2015-2025). And public policies have proposed ways to offer vacancies in early childhood schools that compromise the right and socially referenced quality education. Thus, the outsourcing of early childhood education in the municipal network began, at first, with palliative perspectives, with the objective of meeting the demands and offering vacancies to the popular classes. However, the growing number of OSCs establishments in the municipal network denotes an education counter-reform policy. For this, however, it is necessary to understand educational policies beyond institutional spaces. It is understandable, in the quest to universalize early childhood education and guarantee access to vacancies in this stage of education, public policies have prioritized public-private relations with OSCs, making it impossible for the public school to grow and serve the community in the construction of historical subjects, cultural and social. There is still long way to go for the quality of education to become effective, especially with the regard to infrastructure, the appreciation of professionals and the participatory process understood as political praxis.