ABSTRACT
The aim of the present article is to assess interviews that are part of a research on the expansion of Preschool in four municipalities of Rio de Janeiro State to identify controversial aspects, ambiguities, challenges and advances regarding Childhood Education. The choice to study the expansion process of Childhood Education lied on better understanding that every enunciation has social nature, is ideologically marked. Moreover, subjects develop their actions in social interaction spaces in everyday life. Speeches are produced by given, concrete, historical subjects. References address several authors, mainly Bakhtin (2003BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Estética da criação verbal. 4. ed. Trad. Paulo Bezerra. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2003; 2006)BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem: problemas fundamentais do método sociológico da linguagem. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2006., studies about the decentralization and municipalization of Childhood Education public policies (VILASBOAS; PAIM, 2018VILASBÔAS, Ana Luiza Q.; PAIM, Jairnilson S. Práticas de planejamento e implementação de políticas no âmbito municipal. Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(6):1239-1250, jun, 2008.; KRAMER, 2005KRAMER, Sonia. Profissionais de educação infantil - gestão e formação. São Paulo: Editora Ática, 2005.), and others. Results show in the education managers’ perception about families, daycare and Preschool access expansion, as well as about training and teaching demands. This analytical path has brought conclusions and propositions to policies, for instance, mandatory Preschool education has induced municipalities to create expansion strategies, but many answers are precarious arrangements; the very low operational capacity of municipalities to build new preschools based on federal agreements; the distance from the open access to daycare centers is expressive, even for privileged contexts.
Keywords:
Expansion; Mandatory education; Childhood Education