Banca de DEFESA: MARCIA LACERDA SANTOS SANTANA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARCIA LACERDA SANTOS SANTANA
DATE: 31/10/2022
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Remoto (Link da videochamada: https://meet.google.com/hio-snfh-nit)
TITLE:

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION POLICY AND PHYSICAL SPACES FOR CHILDREN FROM ZERO TO SIX YEARS: ANALYSIS BASED ON THE PUBLIC POLICY CYCLE APPROACH.

KEY WORDS:

Educational policy; physical spaces; early childhood education; young children, policy cycle approach.

PAGES: 194
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUBÁREA: Tópicos Específicos de Educação
SPECIALTY: Educação Pré-Escolar
SUMMARY:

Over the last 20 years, the issue of physical spaces in early childhood education has gained the attention of educators, historians, architects and psychologists. In Brazil, there are national and municipal public policies that guide how these spaces should be constituted. This research is part of the field of public educational policies and focuses on analyzing the performance of the early childhood education policy that establishes the specifics of physical spaces intended for the education of children from zero to six years old. It is based on the theoretical-analytical framework of the Policy Cycle Approach formulated by theorists Stephen Ball and Richard Bowe. The analysis of the policy starts from the context of influence, in the construction of the National Policy for Early Childhood Education, passing through the context of the production of the text at national and local levels, finally, focusing on the context of practice, that is, analyzing the performance of the policy in question, in the reality of Early Childhood Education Centers in the city of Itamaraju, BA. The project is part of the Society, Culture and Environment Research Line of the Postgraduate Program in State and Society at the Federal University of Southern Bahia. This is a quali-quantitative research, which involved multiple data collection procedures and took place in two stages: Documentary Stage and Field Stage. In the Documental Stage, a survey of articles and books was carried out that allowed the identification of the social and political conditions that influenced the formulation of the national public policy on early childhood education. At this stage, an analysis was also made of the context of the production of the text of the national policy that deals with the physical spaces of children's institutions and local documents such as decrees, opinions, manuals, Pedagogical Political Projects and minutes of final results that also address the theme. In the Field Stage, in the context of policy practice, 27 subjects participated, 21 from seven Early Childhood Education Centers and six agents from public agencies, social control and the city council. The 21 participants (07 managers and 14 educators) from the Early Childhood Education Centers answered an electronic questionnaire with closed questions. With the six public agents (1 representative of the secretary of education, 1 representative of the secretary of works, 2 representatives of the Municipal Council of Education and 2 representatives of the City Council) interviews were conducted based on a structured script. Also in the Field Stage, visits were made to the Early Childhood Education Centers to recognize and describe their spaces. The data from the electronic questionnaires were treated using descriptive statistics, with the presentation of the absolute frequencies of the answers given by the participants. In conclusion, we found that, in the context of practice, a reality is created consisting of Early Childhood Education Centers that present, in more than 80% of cases, spaces that are not consistent with national and local policy of technical standards. There are also suggestions of a centralizing and authoritarian practice in the processes of elaboration of the local politics and in the taking of decisions about the constructions of the municipality, considering that a multidisciplinary team was not constituted to guarantee the process of collective listening. In addition, the city council and the Municipal Council of Education have ceased to act as supervisory elements. Finally, among the direct administration policymakers interviewed, signs of resistance were observed in relation to the imperative of enforcing legislation. This resistance can be supported by several justifications, both political and financial/economic, given the almost inexistence of resources from the union for construction and reform actions within the early childhood education policy, to date. It is expected, as a result of this investigation, to influence local public policies so that they promote the transformation of physical spaces intended for early childhood education in the municipality, respecting the specificities and needs of its users, and contributing to its integral development.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1148978 - SANDRA ADRIANA NEVES NUNES
Interno - 1343877 - ALAMO PIMENTEL GONCALVES DA SILVA
Interno - 1716530 - HERBERT TOLEDO MARTINS
Externa ao Programa - 2263964 - ROSEMARY APARECIDA SANTIAGO
Externa à Instituição - MARIA DE FATIMA DE ANDRADE FERREIRA
Externa à Instituição - MARLENE OLIVEIRA DOS SANTOS - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - EDI CRISTINA MANFROI - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - CÂNDIDA MARIA SANTOS DALTRO ALVES - UESC-BA