Resumen

LUCAS, Maria Angélica Olivo Francisco  y  MACHADO, Maria Cristina Gomes. Percalços da educação infantil como direito da criança: análise da história e da legislação das décadas de 1980 e 1990. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2012, vol.07, n.01, pp.107-128. ISSN 1809-4309.

This article seeks to analyze the role of Early Childhood education in the period between the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship until the enactment of the current Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (National Educational Bases and Guidelines Law - LDB). This period represents a major step in the history of Early Childhood Education due to the development of documents that were essential to the acknowledgment of children’s rights, such as the Constituição Federal (Federal Constitution - 1988), the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (Child and Adolescent Statute - ECA) (1990) and the Política Nacional de Educação Infantil (National Policy for Early Childhood Education - PNEI) (1994). All of these documents were used as basis for this study. The constitutional text recognized children as citizens, while the ECA has strengthened this commitment from the part of the State. Similarly, the PNEI has defined the suitable conditions for children’s overall development. However, the universal implementation of a quality service progresses slowly, since the specificity of this educational modality is yet to be fully recognized.

Palabras clave : Education; History of Education Policies; Early Childhood Education.

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