SCHOOL MANAGEMENT IN EARLY EDUCATION: KNOWLEDGE AND DOES NECESSARY TO GUARANTEE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.5584172420058

• Palavras-chave: Childhood History. Early Childhood. School management. Legal Frameworks for Early Childhood Education. Quality of Early Childhood Education.

• Keywords: Childhood History. Early Childhood. School management. Legal Frameworks for Early Childhood Education. Quality of Early Childhood Education.

• Abstract:

  This article is about the importance of the School Manager's work for the quality of educational processes in Early Childhood Education. To this end, it briefly addresses the evolution of conceptions of childhood in Western society, as well as the evolution of formal education for young children, explaining the social, political and economic context of society at each time and the way in which this context influenced the emergence of the first educational institutions. Next, it highlights the legal frameworks that regulate Early Childhood Education in the Brazilian context and the need to legitimize these regulations in each daycare center and preschool with a view to guaranteeing the quality of formal education for children between zero and 5 (five) years of age. In this sense, it discusses the need for the school manager to develop his duties in order to assist children in their specificities, which requires differentiated work at this stage of Basic Education. This qualitative study is anchored in a literature review on Childhood, Early Childhood Education and School Management and, also, in a documentary analysis of the legal and historical frameworks of Early Childhood Education. The interest in researching this topic emerged after a master's degree research developed in 2016 that covered 12 public schools in São Luís, Maranhão, and highlighted the existence of a gap between advances in legislation for Early Childhood Education and its implementation in the institutions researched.