Early Childhood Education in the pandemic of COVID-19: analysis of the return of face-to-face care in Recife’s nursery and preschool

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Renan Francelino da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Gomes Neto, José Mário Wandderley
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Zero-a-seis
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/zeroseis/article/view/90082
• topic: Educação Infantil; Processo decisório; Estratégia política; Retorno gradual às atividades presenciais; COVID-19; Early childhood education; Decision-making process; Policy strategy; Return to face-to-face activities; COVID-19

How has the return of face-to-face care in Recife’s nursery and preschool occurred throughout COVID-19’s Public Calamity? The literature on coordination and management at federative entities (Union, Federal District, States and Municipalities) and intersectoral collaboration involving Basic Education points to a political behavior in which Governors and Mayors have, throughout this health crisis, determined the gradual return of face-to-face activities in day care centers and preschools, to the detriment of the high rate of COVID-19 cases. This article is dedicated to the qualitative analysis of the executive decree of the Municipality of Recife, through a case study, on the suspension and the return to presential activities, with the purpose of understanding how such exceptional circumstances of sanitary calamity influenced the decision-making-s strategy of that municipality concerning the activities in the first stage of education. It was concluded that such exceptional circumstance influenced the legislative trajectory applied by the municipality and the State of Pernambuco and, regarding the suspension and gradual return to the face-to-face activities, the decision taken by the authority was political, not technical.