Matrícula obrigatória na educação infantil a partir dos quatro anos de idade: avanços e desafios e a implementação do proinfância no município de São Pedro do Sul

Abstract

This monograph of the specialization in Educational Management UFSM theme is "mandatory enrollment in early childhood education from the age of four: advances and challenges and implementation of Proinfância in São Pedro do Sul." The place where the research was conducted in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul with the City Department of Education and the community surrounding the unit Proinfância. The aim of this study is to analyze how it will implement this policy of inclusion of children 4 and 5 years in the municipal education system in Sao Pedro do Sul Rio Grande do Sul, through Program Proinfância. Defined as specific objectives: to reflect on the historical and social conceptions developed about the child as a subject of rights; perform the mapping of Educational Public Policy on Early Childhood Education from the 1988 Federal Constitution; investigate what are the challenges and advances Policy that extends the right to education, from the age of four, can bring to educational establishments Child Education in São Pedro do Sul and understand the challenges and opportunities of the organization of municipal education administration, before the scenario receive children from the age of four, in the education system to increase enrollment through Proinfância. Faced with this challenge, the city was awarded a drive through the National Programme for Restructuring and Acquisition of Network Equipment for Public School Children Education - Proinfância, in which the municipality is part of Group 2 to address two hundred forty (240 ) Child rearing children. Such research adopts a qualitative approach, which is seen as a systematic activity which guides understanding of educational and social phenomena. The research design brings first a bibliographical study about texts, documents, educational legislation, relevant to the topic of research, and then departed for the field research, which adopted as tools for data production semistructured interviews, questionnaires and open to the community around the unit Proinfância. In analyzing the data collected with the subjects involved in the study contacted that the construction of this unit in the city brings new expectations for the community, as long as these families struggle to be built in a day care center city neighborhood. And desire was present in subjects' responses when asked about the importance of this unit. Reported that bring different benefits to that community, such as: enhancement of neighborhood vague assurance to children 0-6 years, improving the care of children, job opportunities, and for parents and mothers who work outside the home, among others.