Educação infantil: da medicalização à judicialização do atendimento em creches

Abstract

The present article is about obtained results in a master degree research in education, which has analyzed the influences of judicial decisions in the care quality offered to the child’s education in the city’s day care centers located in Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil. It aimed to analyze the historical data about child’s education institutions origins in order to obtain a critical reflection about a “new justification” for the need of small child’s care: the judicialization. It is a qualitative study approach, in which the empirical material was produced through semi structured interviews and in loco visit. It was possible to realize that the judge’s actions to comply with the children’s right to the education turns out to create, although not intentionally, another issue: the overcrowding of the day care centers, which causes an unsatisfied service quality. We considered, in the end, in order to have to a solution to this problem, the Public Power must develop emergency actions, under penalty of continuous aggravation of the problem. We based our analysis in a critical theoretical referential about child’s education.