Sistema apostilado e Educação Infantil: o ensino como negócio

Abstract

In this work we analyze the booklets indicated for children in Early Childhood Education. Even recently incorporated into basic education, this stage still has the attribution of socializing the child. At this stage, no kind of systematizing activity is required - playing should be the main activity. It is through playing that the child experiences and elaborates on the world. However, Early Childhood Education has been increasingly gaining the role of preparation for elementary school, incorporating the use of booklets, whether in the public school system or in the private school system. The use of these booklets causes the child to leave the activity of playing in order to do a systematization activity. In addition, the adoption of this type of material occurs under the oligopoly of companies operating in this sector, intensifying their own businesses, inclusively within the public school. In order to deal with this theme, it was used as theoretical basis the reference of the Frankfurt School, more precisely the perspective of the authors of the first generation of Society Critical Theory, whose main objective is the critique of capitalist society. "Formation" and "experience" are key concepts in this work. This work was based on the hypothesis that the Early Childhood Education booklets anticipate or prepare for literacy. Based on the contents and activities identified, it was possible to verify that the booklets are focused predominantly on adaptation - and not on formation and experience -, and yet there is still a great tendency for schools, both public and private, to adhere to the booklet system