THE OFFER OF NURSERY AND PRE-SCHOOLS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PINHEIRAL/RJ: REALITY OR DISFARCE?
Public Policy. Child education. Nursery. Pre school.
This dissertation is the result of the master's research that focuses on analyzing the public policy of expanding day care centers and preschools in the municipality of Pinheiral, located in the southern region of Rio de Janeiro State. The present research aims to investigate the strategies, which the City Hall of this southern fluminense municipality is using to give effectiveness to the public policy of offering day care centers and preschools, the recontextualization of the policy in practice and the actors who make this reinterpretation. With special attention to managers, called mid-level bureaucrats, quantitative data will be collected regarding the number of children enrolled in the municipal network, in addition to a qualitative investigation, where the specific objective will be to observe how municipal managers influence the organization, care and provision of early childhood education in the municipal education system. It is a qualitative research that allows the researcher to work on the universe of conceptions that involves the subject matter of the research, recovering social and cultural contexts, where words and human manifestations have a specific meaning, and the collection of this information cannot be reduced to simple operationalization (GAMBOA, 2003). The following methodological procedures will be used: bibliographic research, documentary research, complemented by a semi-structured interview with the Municipal Secretary of Education, as well as with the responsible for early childhood education of the Municipal Secretariat of Education. The analysis of documents will have as its object the documents built by the Municipal Secretariat of Education, from which the main document to be analyzed will be the Pedagogical Proposal for Early Childhood Education of this Fluminense municipality. Documents that formalize the policy of offering day care centers and preschools in this municipality will be an important analytical material for the research. The data obtained from the research, both documentary and semi-structured interviews, will be organized and analyzed through the four research axes: conception of early childhood education, training of professionals, organization of care and offer. For the analysis of the obtained data, the research will be based on the interpretative analysis, through triangulation, having as reference the following movement: the research objectives, the adopted theoretical base and the collected empirical data (MARCONDES, 2014). The results of the analyzes will be known at the end of the survey, however the preliminary data collection of early childhood education shows that there are pre-school children who are not enrolled, and that new preschool places have been created in schools in the network. regular education.