A importância da regularização de escolas de Educação Infantil: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed within the scope of the Professional Master in Public Management and Education Assessment (PPGP) belonging to the Center of Public Politics and Education Assessment of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The management case studied is the importance of Preschool Childhood Education regularization of public and private networks of the town of João Monlevade, Minas Gerais, subordinated to the jurisdiction of Superintendence of teaching of Nova Era in the period from 2015 to 2019. We start from the premise that the child´s education represents a social right and needs specialized monitoring by the competent institutions to the school's offerers of child´s education. Thus, our objectives defined for this study were to analyze the process of accreditation and monitoring of Early Childhood Education institutions, in which the bureaucratic and pedagogical aspects compete and to propose the Educational Action Plan with actions that aim to optimize the Superintendence's systematic monitoring work with schools providers of this level of education. For that, we list the trajectory of Early Childhood Education in the Brazilian educational context, in a systematic way, in the State of Minas Gerais and in the city of João Monlevade; we present an analysis of the quality of Education in Brazil with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education, based on educators who developed studies and research on the topic; and we analyzed the result of the semi-structured interviews. We assume as a hypothesis that the regional Superintendence of teaching of Nova Era presented difficulties fulfilling, at the period from 2015 to 2019, their supervisory role of the school institutions that offer this level of teaching, which worked without authorization and accreditation in the municipality, with wide dissemination of vacancies, including informing the School Census, without, many times, receiving visits or notifications from competent bodies, being able to put in check the quality of the education offered to children. Therefore, we use as methodology the documentary analysis through the study of the documents correlated of RST, School Census data, among others; and semi-structured interviews with schools that for years worked irregularly, with ANE/School Inspector and, with responsibility for the student that attended an unregulated institution. All the search about the monitoring of the offer Preschool Childhood Education was realized from 2015 to 2019, posterior period to the publish of National Plan of Education 2014/2024 that, in the first goal, disposes about the expansion of the offer of EI, with quality standards. To study and analyze we took as references to the subject Gatti (2008); Campos et al. (2011); Kramer (2011); Gusmão (2013); and Zanetti (2015). The study shows the precarious monitoring by the Superintendence of teaching of Nova Era, against the mandatory regularization of childhood schools, and signals the need for implementation of new practices on management that may be replicated to other jurisdiction municipalities and also in any other belonging to the State Education System of Minas Gerais, since the challenges listed here are common to different cities, bringing direct benefits to the children´s school life and the quality of the education offered.