The creation of crèches in public universities in the state of São Paulo: gender relations and the rights of women and the young child - the search for new practices

Abstract

This article presents a review of researches carried out in the context of university day care centers, presenting the history of the implementation of day care centers within the State universities of São Paulo and the study carried out focusing on gender relations within one of these day care centers. We will present a brief contextualization about the trajectory of the creation of the day care center and its connection with the extra-domiciliary work of women, emphasizing that the roots of Early Childhood Education relate to external issues the needs and rights of children. We will go into the history of the creation of the university day care centers in question, presenting the meanders of its implementation process highlighting the legal issues that institutionalized day care centers in state public universities in the State of São Paulo. Later, we will talk about the Pedagogies of the Infants experienced in one of these university nurseries focusing on the process of constructing the stereotypes of the feminine and masculine in the pedagogies developed in its interior.