Políticas municipais para a educação infantil da rede pública de João Pessoa/PB

Abstract

The theme of this work is the policies proposed for early childhood education. From the perspective of focusing on these themes to better understand the interrelationships between the context of text production, educational public policies and pedagogical practices, interest in this research arises, reflecting on the formulation of municipal public policies for Education. Children's in João Pessoa/PB. The general objective was to understand the public policies for Early Childhood Education in the municipal network of João Pessoa. And as specific objectives, discuss the concepts of children, childhood and Early Childhood Education present in municipal documents, understand the concepts of curriculum for Early Childhood Education present in municipal documents, highlight the continuing education policies of the municipality of João Pessoa/PB and discuss the quality of services in Public Early Childhood Education. As a methodological procedure, we carried out documentary research based on 5 (five) documents produced between the years 2022 and 2023 that provide elements about Early Childhood Education policies in the municipality of João Pessoa/PB. The main theoretical references trained on Early Childhood Education, policies and curriculum were Kramer, Mainardes, Sarmento, Arroyo, Corsaro, Paschoal, Machado, Oliveira, Rizzo, among others. As analysis of the results, it was obtained that the municipal Early Childhood Education policies in the documents analyzed are in line with the national documents and authors studied. Through this, we realized that the municipality of João Pessoa develops Early Childhood Education policies through documents designed to be developed in the practice of educational units, respecting the context in which it is located. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss and fight so that these educational policies do not remain stagnant or regress, but move forward to provide quality education to all children who attend CMEIs/schools.