EDUCATIONAL PUBLIC POLICIES IN CHILDHOOD: A LOOK AT THE ISSUE OF REFUGEE CHILDREN IN NOVA IGUAÇU
Child refugees; Public Policies; Baixada Fluminense
This master's dissertation seeks to understand educational policies toward refugee children. In many aspects, this is a field that is still to be deepened. The research focuses on the understanding of the offer of educational rights, guaranteed by legislation at the national level, as well as the municipal public policies for foster care in the public school system in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu in the Baixada Fluminense. To this end, in addition to the analysis of the legal aspects, we will interview the pedagogical and teaching staff of units that serve refugee children, as well as the staff of the Municipal Secretariat of Education. The theoretical concepts are based on the assumptions of Mikhail Bakhtin (2003, 2014, 2017) who points to the "non-alibi of existence", thus affirming the responsive attitude, and Freire (1987, 1996) who points to the process of "being more" that must be realized in the communion and solidarity of existents. This study goes through the concepts of children and childhoods based on childhood studies (ARIÉS, 1986; SARMENTO, 2005; CORSARO, 2011 and LOPES, 2006, 2008, 2018). It also dialogues with the concepts of Rua (1997) and Mainardes (2006) in the understanding of public policies, their nature and their relations. The present research is of qualitative approach.