Criança, infância e educação infantil: pressupostos das pesquisas

Abstract

The article presents a bibliographic memory of research for, with and about child, childhood and early childhood education, indicating authors and articles considered epistemological assumptions of this emerging research field. Without claiming to be an exhaustive analysis, the text exposes the prevailing references among researchers through a theoretical-bibliographic survey based on all references used between 2006 and 2016. From the search words “children,” “childhood” and “early childhood education” we catalogued in the database all bibliographic sources cited in theses, dissertations, journal articles, and full studies presented at the annual meetings of the Brazilian Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (ANPEd) available online. A thorough examination of all the material revealed the authors and texts most often cited by researchers. As a result, a diversity of theoretical and methodological contributions is evidenced as the epistemic base of the bibliographic memory of this research field.