Evaluation of childhood education quality: contributions from the Australian experience

• Grant number: 16/09612-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2016
• End date: October 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Planning and Evaluation
• Principal Investigator: Sandra Maria Zakia Lian Sousa
• Grantee: Cláudia Oliveira Pimenta
• Supervisor: Collette Patria Tayler
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Melbourne, Australia
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/15198-6 - 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, BP.DR

Abstract

This text presents project to perform outside research internship at the University of Melbourne, where we intend to develop activities and studies on the quality standards set for early childhood education and existing evaluation for this educational stage in Australia. The aspects of both proposals have potential to contribute to our analysis, theoretical and methodological, concerning of quality evaluation's initiatives of the early childhood education, in Brazil. The activities that will be carried during the internship and their possible results are detailed, including the preparation of an article in partnership with the Australian advisor and other researchers. This article will be presented in the area's event and it will be subjected at analysis for publication in a periodic.