Early childhood education, government policies and mobilizations in times of pandemic

Abstract

In the temporal cut-off of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), in this article we address government policies related to Early Childhood Education, paying attention to a purposeful expectation, sometimes without proper dialogue with children, their families and professionals. In the recognition of the precariousness experienced and the confrontations undertaken, we advocate the centrality of life preservation, associated with zeal for democratic processes. In this scenario, with contextual data, we propose reflections associated with the axes of the specificity of education with young children, the necessary interlocutions in this period and the attention to the initiatives to be directed in the post-pandemic. We conclude by inviting continued surveillance and mobilization in order to nourish the message of another possible world, betting on the resistance to the barbarism imposed, in particular, on children.