Abstract

SOUZA, Marina Castro e  and  NUNES, Maria Fernanda Rezende. “They want it close to home”: interviews with early chidhood public education managers. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2020, vol.36, e71182.  Epub July 09, 2020. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.71182.

The aim of the present article is to assess interviews that are part of a research on the expansion of Preschool in four municipalities of Rio de Janeiro State to identify controversial aspects, ambiguities, challenges and advances regarding Childhood Education. The choice to study the expansion process of Childhood Education lied on better understanding that every enunciation has social nature, is ideologically marked. Moreover, subjects develop their actions in social interaction spaces in everyday life. Speeches are produced by given, concrete, historical subjects. References address several authors, mainly Bakhtin (2003; 2006), studies about the decentralization and municipalization of Childhood Education public policies (VILASBOAS; PAIM, 2018; KRAMER, 2005), and others. Results show in the education managers’ perception about families, daycare and Preschool access expansion, as well as about training and teaching demands. This analytical path has brought conclusions and propositions to policies, for instance, mandatory Preschool education has induced municipalities to create expansion strategies, but many answers are precarious arrangements; the very low operational capacity of municipalities to build new preschools based on federal agreements; the distance from the open access to daycare centers is expressive, even for privileged contexts.

Keywords : Expansion; Mandatory education; Childhood Education.

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