Práticas do UNICEF e governamentalidade de crianças de 0 a 6 anos: uma abordagem histórica da educação infantil brasileira de 1996 a 2012

Abstract

This research aimed to historicize childhood and policies for early childhood education as from an analysis of the practices of UNICEF, and other sectors of society, that made efforts to conduct an objectification of infancy and early childhood education. This research is justified by the need to denaturalize practices objectification of childhood and early childhood education and intervention free of multilateral organizations in Brazilian educational scene, suspecting about argument of neutrality that pervades some practices directed at children. Looking for to draw a map to demarcate the government art of children, governmentality, and its effects in the formulation of policies for the Brazilian education in the period after LDB. For this analysis we used the theoretical and methodological framework grounded in historical genealogy of Michel Foucault. Was made a literature search that used the authors as Foucault (1970/79), Veyne (1998), Aries (1979), Kramer (1995/2006), Rosemberg (2002/2003), as well as the Brazilian federal government documents. It was concluded that early childhood education has emerged as one of the elements that encompass the practices of governmentality UNICEF.