“Moro muito longe da praça”: o Plano Municipal Pela Primeira Infância (PMPI) e o direito à cidade em São Gonçalo

Abstract

This research carried out within the scope of the Postgraduate Program in Education Formative Processes and Social Inequalities (PPGedu/UERJ), is linked to the research line Policies, Rights and Inequalities, aiming to analyze how childhood and the city of São Gonçalo were thought of in the Municipal Plan for Early Childhood (PMPI, 2023), presented by the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (CMDCA), composed of government representatives (Municipal Secretariats of Education, Housing, Social Assistance, Health, among others) and non-governmental representatives (Social Movements, community daycare centers, religious representatives, etc.) in October 2022, in São Gonçalo/RJ. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, this is a qualitative, participatory and bibliographic-documentary research. We sought to dialogue with the Municipal Plan for Early Childhood (PMPI), working with methodological procedures such as the “State of Knowledge” (Vasconcellos et al 2020), documentary analysis (Godoy 1995, Le Goff 2013 and Evangelista 2012) and comprehensive interviews, seeking to understand the relationship between childhood and the city present in the Municipal Plan for Early Childhood, considering the importance of thinking/planning the city of São Gonçalo based on those who will prospectively live in the city: the children. To this end, an observation itinerary of squares was drawn up, one for each district of the city. Going to the field was essential in seeking to listen to the subjects who contributed to the construction of the PMPI, the councilors and other people who use the city's squares. From the field, we sought to engage in dialogue with the PMPI, with the aim of observing and understanding what the law tells us, investigating the actual reality that was projected with the urban reforms in the city.