A institucionalização da educação infantil no município de Cascavel: uma abordagem histórica (1970-2013)

Abstract

This study aims to contribute to the knowledge production of the Brazilian Education History Field through a regional cutout. Considering the implications of the political and schooling process at this stage of education, the purpose is to comprehend the constitution’s view of the first public Early Childhood Education institutions in Cascavel. Assuming the phenomenon must be understood from where formal education processes have been remarkably and historically reproduced by formed social relations, the analysis of production relations becomes relevant, as these are configured in how humans produce and reproduce life. In Chapter I, to learn the genesis of childhood, we brought a brief overview of historical points of the period to locate the child in this scenario. In Chapter II, we social, political and economically contextualize Early Childhood Education in the state of Paraná and Brazil. We address the political articulations that permeated this level of teaching offer, in order to locate it in Cascavel’s scenario, discussed in the last chapter. Chapter III deals specifically with the institutionalization of Early Childhood Education in Cascavel, its characteristics and its specificities in the clipping from 1970 to 2013. We presented political, social, economic and pedagogical aspects that permeated the context of these first institutions. In final considerations, we point out notes for the analysis of Cascavel’s Early Childhood Education from its genesis to the current period as a way to point out key factors that influence the effectuation thereof as analysis parameter to explain the phenomenon of non-universalization and the enrollment process at this education stage. The educational field is a strategic space for both those who seek to conserve capital's social structure and to fight for the development of the individual and their actions among reality. Therefore, this research has as analysis object the constitution of the public education process in order to identify and understand the role assigned to the School Institution as part of early childhood education and social struggles that influenced this as a formal organization.