The article presents a survey of groups and institutions which produce research in the field of education on infancy, children and preschool education in Brazil by geographical regions and principal themes investigated. In order to carry out the research the CNPq Directory of Research Groups was consulted as were the Notebooks of Indicators of Postgraduate Programmes in Education, with relation to 2006 and the CNPq Lattes data base.
preschool education; infancy; children; research groups
