Falta atenção, sobra cansaço: retratos de creches municipais de Sorocaba

Abstract

This Final Graduation Paper aims to analyze the proportion of impacts of adult/child in daycare schools in Sorocaba. For this reason, a qualitative exploratory research was carried out with education professionals around the city, by using an online questionnaire and analysis of public institutional documents as a data collection method. The statements indicate a high level of disapproval from the part of professionals in relation to the number of children per adult in municipal daycare schools. In addition, several other factors were planned, such as physical and psychological exhaustion, the feeling of devaluation, and illness in the class; both pedagogical and logistical limitations, among other problems, directly impacting the well-being of the children and present professionals. The results point to the need to re-evaluate public policies on early childhood education and promote debate on the quality of care in Early Childhood Education Centers (as known as CEIs).