Abstract

SILVA, Franceline Rodrigues; BRAGA, Daniel Santos  and  VIEIRA, Lívia Maria Fraga. Early childhood education infrastructure in Belo Horizonte: offer conditions and territorial distribution. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2021, vol.46, e42721.  Epub Oct 05, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644442721.

This article aims at discussing the offer conditions for early childhood education in Belo Horizonte concerning its physical structure and territorial distribution. The National Institute of Educational Studies and Research's 2018 School Census and Atlas Brasil were used as data sources. The construction of the supply conditions adequacy indicators was made by a continuous numerical scale measured to better fit the purposes of this study having as unit of analysis the public and private schools of infant education (convened to the public power or not) and its relationship with the Human Development Unit to which it belonged. The main findings of this study are the evidence of the Belo Horizonte' early childhood education precarious supply conditions schools, as well as their unequal territorial distribution, taking into account the needs of the population of regulatory age for this stage.

Keywords : Child education; Conditions of educational offer; School infrastructure..

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