Flores para além da esperança: políticas públicas educacionais e a infância cidadã: um estudo nas escolas de educação infantil da rede municipal de São Leopoldo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

In Brazil, until half of the XIX century, care provided to small kids who were away from their mothers was almost nonexistent, and it was not a public policy issue. The care provided to children became a public concern from the creation of the conception of childhood as a distinct stage, which emerged in the contemporary society (XX century), both in terms of the provision of services and spaces that could handle such demand, as well as in terms of the policies presented to society. We may consider some historical moments as hallmarks for the actual recognition/discovery of children under a perspective of citizenship, among them we may mention the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the signing of the Federal Constitution in Brazil (1988). This thesis is the result of a research carried out during the Masters Degree course in Education, taken at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos from 2006 to 2008. It approached the discussion about the materialization of public policies for childhood in the contemporary society, considering them under a perspective of citizenship. I order to do so we took as an empirical field six schools for children in the municipal network of São Leopoldo, in the region of Vale dos Sinos, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Through a qualitative methodological approach, we used as instrumental contribution semi-structured interviews with twelve research subjects, managers of these schools and SMED (Municipal Department of Education, Sport and Leisure) representatives. We researched how these public policies materialize in this reality, showing the possibility of the existence of childhood with citizenship in such context. The research dealt with four main thematic axes: public policies, childhood, children education and citizenship. Considerations showed a qualitative upgrade in children education of the said city. However, there is still an unbalance concerning the public policies passed for children and the practices performed in the context researched. The subjects who took part in the research further expressed the impossibility, acknowledged by the city council, to provide education to every child in school age in the city of São Leopoldo

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infância políticas públicas educação infantil rio grande do sul children education childhood citizenship cidadania educacao são leopoldo public policies

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