Discursos de mães negras sobre educação e cuidado de crianças de até três anos de idade

Abstract

This dissertation integrates the research group at the Center for the Study of Gender, Race and Age (NEGRI), Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo PUC - SP, coordinated by Fúlvia Rosemberg, who has been studying the process of social construction of childhood in Brazil investigating the invisibility of babies and questioning public policies relating to education and care in the context of childcare. Your goal is to describe and interpret speeches by three black women / black, mothers of babies belonging to urban, middle class residents in São Paulo, on education and care of children 0-3 years of age. Adopted the theoretical framework of social studies of childhood that assisted in the analyzes and interpretations that depart from conceptions of childhood as a social construction, the child as a social actor and subject of rights. He leaned in studies of race relations in Brazil that provide an understanding of racial and social inequalities that characterize Brazilian society. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee Platform via Brazil. The mothers signed a consent form for performing, recording, transcription and use of interviews. The transcription of the interviews was analyzed using content analysis techniques with thematic focus. The main results were that babies appear to be still developing, fragile, dependent adults who require more intense and specific care. The public daycare option appears as positive education and care as a duty of the State and baby right as a citizen. The actors involved in this research point: the judicialization this search for vacancies in nursery for babies. On topic of race relations and the nursery appeared differentiated discourses with recognition of racism and inequality between blacks and whites in society and that the claims of the black movement are more directed to the adult world of what to baby