Mais Infância para quem? Problematizando o Programa Mais Infância a partir de vozes de crianças no cotidiano de uma Unidade Municipal de Educação Infantil em Niterói

Abstract

This argumentative work is the result of innumerable issues that I have been finding in my academic course as a teacher and researcher in ´´Child Education´´ in Niterói´s city. These questions challenged me to research on conceptions of childhood expressed through the implementation of a public policy focused on ´´Child Education´´ on the city, the "Programa Mais Infância", where I sought to know what children had to say and express about the service offered to them in the purpose* of that program. The research was developed in an ´´UMEI´´ of Niterói, inaugurated in the said program in 2013. In the light of the contributions of Rosenberg (2007), Faria e Finco (2011) and Moss (2009), I propose a cut on the aforementioned program from the look for a child as a individual who is participant the daily of society and social processes, and under that perspective, I proposed to investigate the possibilities of building a public policy for children's education, through an ethnography of childhood participation (GRAUE and WALSH, 1998) which institutional devices are created, in fact, for children as social groups, prioritizing childhood´s interactions and cultures. Betting from the perspective of children as producers of cultures and social subjects of rights, we work with the conception of childhood as a potency, which pass through barriers and borders, as invites us Abramowicz (2003). Being the child, in our conception, the main subject of politics in ´´Children Education´´, my investigation proposes a look for ´´Programa Mais Infância´´, focusing on the search of senses for the term ´´MAIS INFÂNCIA´´, in the perspective of respect for the fundamental rights of child, for the expression of their desires, in search of thinking if in the execution of the same children have been in fact prioritized, if they are taken as protagonists, participating in fact the construction of the daily of the investigation in UMEI, having their voices welcomed and valued.