Uma análise do Programa Mais Infância : concepções e ações envolvidas na implementação da política pública para a Educação Infantil em Niterói (2013-2016)

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute on debation to analyze educational public policies. Specifically on it, focused on the expansion of Early Childhood Education in Niterói / RJ. We seek to understand politics in general and educational policy in particular the elements debated in the master's research, trying to understand the main features of the program aimed on that expansion of Early Childhood Education in Niterói (RJ). The "Mais Infância" program is defined as a public policy of effective teaching coverage, focusing on Early Childhood Education, and one of its main objectives is to expand the number of places offered to children in the age group 0 to 5 years and 11 months in the municipal education network of the city of Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro. The ongoing research objective is to analyze the implementation process of the "Mais Infância program considering the mainly conceptions, interests and actions developed for effectuation it on the period from 2013 to 2016. The characteristics of the Early Childhood Education policy in general and in Niterói City lead to the reviews, considering multiple determinations and the intentions set for the program ideas and concepts that permeate actions to expansion of places in kindergarten. Some of the dimensions analyzed are advances and difficulties identified during the implementation of public policy. It is theoretical and methodological qualitative research. Through the documentary analyzes of the institutional texts produced on the public policy of early childhood education in Niterói and semi-structured interviews with key managers of this policy, seeks to relate their intrinsic aspects to the wider dimension wich treated in the legal provisions of the Federal Government, on dialogue with some bibliographical productions on subject.