Núcleo de Educação Infantil Ipê Amarelo: um estudo de caso

Abstract

This study was an attempt to analyze the origins and the development of Ipê Amarelo’s Nucleus of Children Education, located in the Campus in the Federal University of Santa Maria. Initially the investigation of the object was contextualized through a brief retrospective of Children Education in Brazil, of the current pertinent legislation to children from 0 to 6 years and a flexing on the importance of the school administration. Soon afterwards it tried to rebuild critically to development of the administrations in this institution, the main change happened, the managers' articulation in the organization and operation of the Nucleus. The research was characterized as a Study of Case, centered in the documental analysis and depositions of personal involved. The theoretical base was based on Zilma of Moraes Oliveira’s work, on the course of Children Education in Brazil, Paulo Nathanael Souza and Faria and Palhares in what refers the legislation for children from 0 to 6 years and in Libâneo and Castro about the conceptions of Administration. The results of the investigation permitted to conclude that, during five administrations, in the period from 1989 to 2006, the Nucleus of Children Education Ipê Amarelo improved some changes, so much structural as in the adaptation of the legislation, work methodologies and in the pedagogic work itself. Two of these changes were more significant. The first refers to a moment in which the institution begins the process of overcoming of an assistance character, giving a more pedagogic dimension to the children's service and that was made possible through the replacement of health area professionals by trainees from courses of the education area. Allied to the fact, the direction is constituted by teachers of the Education Center. The second change is when NEIIA starts belonging to the Center of Education. From that period the work of turning it a recognized education nucleus begins, and important steps were given, for instance, the construction of the Pedagogic Political Project and the more effective involvement of the school community in the administration of the institution.