Resumen

CORSINO, Patrícia. Presentation — Evaluation movements in and of Early Childhood Education. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2021, vol.37, e83539.  Epub 07-Nov-2021. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.83539.

The present text introduces the dossier called Challenges of evaluation in and of Early Childhood Education, whose proposition lies on discussing Early Childhood Education evaluation movements; the ones triggered by thinking about evaluation inside institutions, by proposition follow-ups taking place in daily life, and by processes experienced by children and adults - that emerge from sights external to the institutions, and that gather internal and external sights. Initially, it approaches the axiological and ideological profile of evaluation choices, and the importance of thinking about the very meaning of education in order to answer to the following inquires: evaluating, what for? What are the several evaluation propositions in and of Early Childhood Education, Education works for? The text provides consensus in the Early Childhood Education field, which was added to the legislation, and to documents issued by Ministério da Educação [Ministry of Education] (MEC), in the last decades. It also points out the discontinuity in the current educational policy, mainly in the National Literacy Policy, and in its likely outcomes concerning evaluation in and of Early Childhood Education. In its final part, the text presents each one of the eight articles composing the present dossier, and their evaluation movements.

Palabras clave : Early Childhood Education; Evaluation; Educational policies.

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