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Evaluation initiatives quality of Early Childhood Education, under way in Brazil: implications, tensions and contributions to the guarantee of the right to young children's education

Grant number: 15/15198-6
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
Start date: March 01, 2016
End date: May 31, 2017
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Education - Educational Planning and Evaluation
Principal Investigator:Sandra Maria Zakia Lian Sousa
Grantee:Cláudia Oliveira Pimenta
Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
Associated scholarship(s):16/09612-7 - Evaluation of childhood education quality: contributions from the Australian experience, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The incorporation of early childhood education to the education system and their subsequent inclusion in basic education, through legal framework set up at the Brazilian re-democratization period, has given rise in recent years, the debate about the assessment of the quality of this educational stage. Initiatives in that direction have been triggered by both the federal government and by municipalities, highlighting concerns in order to meet current legislation. This project, under way since 2013 in the form of Doctoral Thesis, aims to identify and analyze municipal initiatives of the assessment of the Childhood Education's quality, in course in the country, in order to understand its potential and its limits to contribute to guaranteeing the right to education de quality of small children. It is intended to build indicators to support the analysis this initiatives with respect to their potential to contribute in guarantee that right. An analysis of national legislation, and of the documents published by the Ministry of Education as well as domestic and foreign literature on the quality offered in the Childhood Education subsidize the design of analytical referentials to be adopted. (AU)

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Academic Publications
(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)
PIMENTA, Cláudia Oliveira. Municipal evaluation of early childhood education: contributions to guarantee the right to education of Brazilian children?. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD) São Paulo.