Educação infantil em Juiz de Fora/MG: o processo de transferência da administração das creches da assistência social para educação

Abstract

The main aim of the research is the transference of the administration of children public institutions belonged to the Associação Municipal de Apoio Comunitário (AMAC) to the education municipal organization of Juiz de Fora. The specific objectives are: a) a search in the Nursery Program file of historic documents about the social policy and the proposed actions to the program between 1983 and 2005; b) analysis of these actions and propositions; c) study of the statements that gave origin to these actions during the study period; and d) an analysis of the management transference of the public children institutions linked to AMAC to the education municipal organization. The scientific method utilized was the historiographic approach. The used processes in the investigation were bibliographic and documental analysis and realization of no structured and semi-structured interviews. It was concluded that several studies were developed and many alternatives were tried out to achieve the disposed in the 9.394/1996 Law, that refers to children education. It was adopted the alternative of the transference of the management of the nurseries that work with children from four to six years old to the children education municipal schools. The transference of the management of the nurseries that work with children from three months to three years and eleven months were not started yet. In spite of the delay of the initiation of the management transference of community nurseries to municipal administration, one can notice that Juiz de Fora city has been doing a good job in the field of public policies in order to adept to the current educational legislation, as occurs with the Education Municipal Tem Year Plan, that has the goal of the gradual incorporation of the nurseries linked to AMAC to the Education Municipal Department.