O processo de integração da creche ao sistema municipal de educação de São Paulo (2001-2004)

This text shows the results of the PhD research about the Early Childhood Education integration process in the municipal education system in São Paulo city.It aimed to investigate the actions taken by the municipal administration in the configuration of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) as the first level of the educational sphere in the period from 2001 to 2004.The ECE was previously constituted by two distinctive systemsthe child care, under the Department of Social Services, and pre-school, under the Department of Education.To do so, the methodological procedures constituted in mapping and analyzing legal and normative documents of the given period available in the Municipal Department of Education website, in the Municipal Department of Education's Technical Documental Memoire archive, regarding particularly the municipal legislation.The documents that sustained the ECE integration process are, among others: Laws, Executive Orders, Resolutions and Committee Reports from the Municipal Department of Education, as well asother documents from this department.Interviews were made with some of the professionals that participated in the ECE integration process, which helped us to make a wider and more accurate analysis of the documents.The Sociology of Childhood perspective allowed an understanding of childhood and social place of children in the municipal policy regarding young children's care and education that when taking the history of the child care in São Paulo into account as well as the tension and struggling that formed the ECE during the integration progress we managed to highlight that this integration process focused on the transference of the child care from the Department of Social Service to the Department of Education.However, the Department of Education was not capable to integrate child care and pre-school, on the contrary it has constructed a divided educational policy that divide the children neglecting the children as a social group and childhood as category of the social structure

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