Abstract

SILVEIRA, Adriana Aparecida Dragone; TAPOROSKY, Barbara Cristina Hanauer; FELDMAN, Marina  and  GONCALVES, Lusiane. Mapping of collective enforcement procedures to guarantee the right to early childhood education in the state of Paraná. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2021, vol.46, e43035.  Epub Oct 25, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644443035.

In the last years, there has been an increase in the involvement of the justice system in the enforcement of the right to education, understood as the judicialization of education. The literature in the field has been discussing the intensification of this phenomenon, relating it to a conjunction of factors, such as the increasing juridification of education, the strengthening and expansion of institutions like the Public Prosecution’s Office, and the insufficiency of public policies. Considering these factors, this article aims to present and analyze a mapping of judicial and extrajudicial collective procedures to enforce the right to Early Childhood Education in the state of Paraná, seeking to identity possible explanatory factor to the phenomenon in this context. To achieve such a goal, 71 enforcement procedure from 60 municipalities, located in the state justice system between 2005 and 2016, were analyzed. The data on collective procedures was collated with the characteristics of the municipalities, such as population size, range of median income, and urbanization rate. The existence of a procedure was also analyzed in relation with the justice system’s institutional variables and the enrollment rates in early preschool and pre-Kindergarten. The conclusion is that, in the state of Paraná, the collective demand for the right to Early Childhood Education has been happening exclusively through the initiative of the Public Prosecution’s Office, having a strong relation with its institutional variables, and a higher incidence in municipalities that are not as small, with higher urbanization rates, and higher median incomes.

Keywords : Right to education; Early ChildhoodEducation; Judicialization.

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