“O pré-escolar faz a diferença?” Políticas educativas na educação de infância e práticas pedagógicas: “Does preschool make a difference?” Educational policies in early childhood education and pedagogical practices

Manuela Ferreira; Catarina Tomás

doi:10.21814/rpe.14142

“Does preschool make a difference?” Educational policies in early childhood education and pedagogical practices

“O pré-escolar faz a diferença?” Políticas educativas na educação de infância e práticas pedagógicas

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Manuela Ferreira Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto
Catarina Tomás Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa; CICS, Universidade do Minho

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https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.14142

Abstract

The identification of sociopedagogical practices tendentially reproductive of schooling forms, and the presence of collection curricula and formal modes of pedagogical transmission emphasizing literacy, numeracy and science point to the reconfiguration of Early Childhood Education as a context of schoolarisation and of early processes of children becoming pupils and as a socio-educational prevention strategy against school failure. From an interdisciplinary matrix between Sociology of Childhood, Sociology of Education and Educational Sciences it is analysed the trend of the recent Early Childhood Education political changes in international and national contexts, back to the 90s, and some of its effects on pedagogical practices. The reconstitution of this path rests on the critical analysis of official documents, namely the new Early Childhood Curriculum Guidelines (2016), and observations conducted in Portuguese kindergartens, public and private, between 2015 and 2017.

Keywords: Early childhood education; Education policies; Pedagogical practices; Early childhood education curriculum guidelines

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2018-12-06

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Ferreira, M., & Tomás, C. (2018). “Does preschool make a difference?” Educational policies in early childhood education and pedagogical practices: “O pré-escolar faz a diferença?” Políticas educativas na educação de infância e práticas pedagógicas. Portuguese Journal of Education, 31(2), 68–84. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.14142

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Vol. 31 No. 2 (2018)

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