Políticas públicas para Educação Infantil na Cidade de Tocantinópolis – To e o enfrentamento das desigualdades sociais e raciai

Abstract

The present article discusses about Challenges and Perspectives Public Policies for Early Childhood Education in the city of Tocantinópolis - TO and the confrontation of social and racial inequalities and which aims to analyze which educational policies and programs implemented in that municipality are directed to the access and permanence of children. children from 0 to 6 years of age, with a view to reducing social and racial inequality. We opted for a qualitative approach with bibliographic and documentary research. The results indicate that there is attention to progress in education policies implemented in the Public Education Network of the municipality in question, among them policies for the inclusion of people with disabilities, multidisciplinary team and continuing education for school staff, the municipality has also implemented several programs in the federal government, among them the Health and Prevention in Schools Project and the Happy Child Program, has created and expanded early childhood education in the villages, as is the case of the São José and Mariazinha villages. However, in general, policies of a welfare nature and not focused on early childhood education. We found that there is no public policy related to racial issues even though most of the pollution in Tocantinópolis is black and brown. In addition, it is observed that in the Municipal Education Plan, for example, the words black and poor do not appear, especially in Mata 1.