Políticas de atendimento à infância nas creches municipais de São Paulo (1989 a 1992)

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the configuration of the attendance policies to the childhood, as well as to elucidate the configuration of the childhood in Nursery Schools of the municipal district of São Paulo, in the end of 1980s and at the beginning of 1990s, period of the left government (PT Workers Party). The choice of the period (1989 to 1992) was influenced by the initial question: Which subjects of rights are those? Within a period of great political and economic crisis in the whole country, the nursery school policies implemented in the municipal district not only considered the social inequalities, prioritizing the attendance to the poor, but also considered the different social expectations in the construction of the institutional time of the childhood, focusing the child as a historical subject. The documental research offers the analysis and brings extracts of the documents produced by the Secretaryship from which the Nursery Schools were located, in order to compose a reflexive registration. The research intends to contribute for the understanding of the object (attendance policies to the childhood in the municipal nursery schools from São Paulo) inserted in its historical context. The research has as theoretical support the Childhood Sociology, especially with the authors Dahlberg, Moss e Pence, in order to analyze the configuration of the educational action in the institutions for the first period of childhood. The results reveal that in this period some policies were constituted facing the childhood, which focused the child as an active participant in the construction of the social time