The Politicizing Dimension of Continuing Education in Early Childhood Education Institutions: A Dialogue from the State of Knowledge
Early Childhood Education. Continuing Education. Politicized formation.
The present scientific research work entitled "The Politicizing Dimension of Continuing Education in Early Childhood Education Institutions: A Dialogue from the State of Knowledge" is a bibliographic and documentary research, mostly qualitative. Result of an analysis in the perspective of dialectical historical materialism, supported by Marx and Engels (2014), Netto (2011), Tonet (2018) and Gramsci (1978, 1980 and 1982). The methodological anchorage for the accomplishment of the bibliographic review that concerns the realization of the State of Knowledge - material basis of the research - is supported by Morosini et al (2021). The general objective of the research was: To investigate and hypothesize about the politicizing dimension of continuing education in early childhood education institutions in dialogue with the State of Knowledge. And as specific: Categorize relevant aspects of continuing education developed by education networks in early childhood education institutions from the analysis of theses and dissertations that investigated such process in loco; To analyze within a Gramscian framework, some contributions of the theoretical accumulation with regard to Brazilian educational policies as a fundamental tool for a global societal project; and, To examine the Curricular Guidelines of early childhood education and teacher training in their instrumental perspective of social conformation, as well as the still timid discussion about the role of the many regulatory policies of teacher education in the face of their legal discontinuity and the materiality of these processes. The main theoretical references with which the research dialogued were: Canan (2016), Laval (2004), Neves (2005, 2008), Shiroma, Moraes and Evangelista (2011), Tommasi, Warde and Haddad (2009), Evangelista and Seki (2017), Evangelista and Shiroma (2007), Freitas (2002), Shiroma (2018), Shiroma and Evangelista (2015), Campos (2011, 2013, 2021), Rosemberg (2013), Kramer (2005, 2006, 2008). The analysis of the results of this research process showed, mainly, that the discourses produced by the international organizations such as the World Bank for education, are sedimented in the constitution of the consciousness of teachers of early childhood education, often by mechanisms of conformation that are not the policies of curriculum and training, however, in them they gain official character, contributing to the normalization of the progressive dismantling of social policies as a whole.