A educação infantil nas políticas públicas: avanços e desafios na última década na região da AMAU

Abstract

The present research intends to understand the way in which the Municipal Education Plans of the 32 towns that part of the Association of Municipalities of Alto Uruguai (AMAU) are articulated with the National Education Plan (PNE). The research intends to know too how childhood education is provided in the last decade at AMAU. The policies has a fundamental function to determining the projects that will develop within the public sphere, in other words, they are policies that seek to meet the needs of all those involved in a given social context. The methodology used was the qualitative approach, the research procedures were the documentary and bibliographic analysis of the Municipal Education Plans (2014-2024). In these plans, Objective 1 and the strategies developed by the towns were selected for analysis to fulfill the objective of Childhood Education within 10 years. The theoretical basis is composed by the authors Fonseca and Ferreira (2011), Lima (2020), Oliveira (2011), Ximenes and Grinkraut (2014), among others. In three chapters, we carried out a historical analysis of public educational policies in Brazil, as well as the process of implementing policies aimed at Childhood Education and the current strategies of municipalities for implementing this level of education in the region.