Reading policy in early childhood education: from management to the reader

Abstract

This article investigates the National Program Library in the School (Programa Nacional Biblioteca da Escola-PNBE) policy in early childhood education. It analyses the journey of the collection of books from the managers to the reader adopting a quantitative-qualitative approach. The corpus encompasses 21 Municipal Centers of Early Childhood Education Network out of 69 units, located in Natal - Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Data comes from semi-structured interviews with administrators of the Municipal Secretary of Education. Results indicate that decentralizing management of the Program releases the agents from their responsibilities' towards the implementation of the policy. Therefore, despite great investments, the readers in initial processes of reading have their needs neglected, surrounded by closed treasure boxes.

Keywords:
reading policy; management; early childhood education