Caracterização e motivação das famílias sobre a educação infantil em tempo integral em três municípios da região metropolitana de Vitória

Abstract

The paper analyzes statistical and descriptively the data resulted from a survey carried out with 248 families residing in the municipalities of Vitoria, Cariacica and Vila Velha, whose children were enrolled in full-time early childhood education institutions. It aims to categorize the ethnic and socioeconomic status of the families interviewed; to identify the motivations that lead families to enroll their children in full-time early childhood education institutions and to analyze the set of factors of a social, economic and educational nature about the full-time program in early childhood education that have excelled in the answers of the families. The results identify as an ethnical and socioeconomic profile that most of the family members are black and present low schooling levels and low monthly household income. The need to work is the families main motivation to enroll children in full-time program schools. It's concluded that there's the acknowledgement from the family that the broadening of the length of stay in the institution contributes to increase possibilities of access to the formal schooling processes, in particular the learning of reading and writing, as well as it enables the socialization with other children.