Posições e ações de um grupo de pesquisa no campo da Educação Infantil – Núcleo de Estudos da Infância: Pesquisa e Extensão

Abstract

This thesis had as its research problem to understand the scientific and academic production of NEI:PE with its contributions and the challenges in the scenario of public policies for Early Childhood Education. Its general objective was to understand a group in relation to its academic-scientific actions, understanding the position and functions of NEI:PE in the field of Education; correlating the research - theses and dissertations - defended by NEI:PE researchers, in the period 2005-2023, considering the scenario of public policies for early childhood education, analyzing the scientific habitus of the group leader and its researchers. Therefore, the thesis was defended that there is an approach and a theoretical-methodological framework that support the work of the group and are in correlation with a panorama of extension and teaching actions, carried out at and with the support of the Faculty of Education (EDU) and the Graduate Program in Education (ProPEd) of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). The research choice for this thesis was based on understanding NEI:PE through a case study with an autobiographical approach, based on theoretical considerations from the sociological and educational fields. This approach made it possible to understand how NEI:PE practices are influenced by specific contexts, including public policies, and how, in turn, these practices influence the configuration of the educational field in Rio de Janeiro, for example, the research that followed the entry of Early Childhood Education Teachers (PEI) into daycare centers and Child Development Spaces (EDI). Finally, this research not only provided an in-depth understanding of NEI:PE in the field of Early Childhood Education, as a space for knowledge production, but also suggests directions for future research that could explore the influence of other research groups and their relationships with public policies for childhood, explore the correlation between regional and national groups that deal with childhood, and raise methodologies and main research themes in order to identify the most researched themes and those that still need further investigation. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001.