Abstract

BORTOT, Camila Maria  and  MOURA, Kethlen Leite de. Early Childhood Education Project in Latin America and the Caribbean: focusing on the poverty infantilization and intersectoriality. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2023, vol.28, n.63, pp.111-136.  Epub Aug 21, 2023. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serieestudos.v28i63.1749.

In this work, we approach the current policies aimed at Early Childhood Education in Latin America and the Caribbean as a way of combating the crises of capital, recommended by multilateral organizations (OM). We seek to analyze the Latin American and Caribbean childhood education project and its intentions, especially with a view to serving, strategically, the capital crises of recent years. In the meantime, we highlight the role of ECLAC and UNESCO with the emergence of discourses on the infantilization of poverty and intersectoriality, associated with strategies for focusing actions and social policies, among them education and non-formal actions as a means of crisis containment. The research method chosen to analyze the phenomenon is based on historical materialism, as the nature of the object is organically linked to the surrounding socioeconomic and historical movement. In conjunction with the proposed analytical-scientific procedure, the qualitative nature of the research allows for the interpenetration of opposites through documentary research, using primary and secondary variables in official, parliamentary, and legal documents. In the analysis of programs at the local level, we examined the Marco Legal pela Primeira Infância (BRASIL, 2016), which demonstrated that the infantilization of poverty and intersectoriality in Brazil is the product of contradictory relations, used, above all, as strategies for converting the ideological into natural. We found that the childhood education project is closely linked to the naturalization of poverty and its forms of maintenance, adding the binomial education-economy of the networks between the State and Market as a way of managing poverty and producing the new individualist ethos and personal effort of skills.

Keywords : social policies; educational policies for children; multilateral organisms; poverty.

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