March 24, 2025
At the end of February, Labedu trainer Cecília Diniz defended her master's dissertation at the USP School of Education (FEUSP), earning her master's degree. The work is titled “Gender in the National Common Curricular Base for Early Childhood Education: setbacks and possibilities for a democratic and plural Early Childhood Education.”
During her research, Cecília investigated how public policies for Early Childhood Education, especially the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), address, or fail to address, gender inequalities. According to her, by excluding the term "gender", the document not only silences essential debates, but also intensifies the inequalities experienced by boys and girls in everyday educational life. However, she points out, the BNCC also opens up possibilities for democratic and pluralistic pedagogical work, since it reaffirms principles such as diversity and human rights. “By analyzing the different versions of the BNCC, my study seeks to understand the impacts of this exclusion and the gaps that allow for the construction of more inclusive practices in Early Childhood Education”, explains the researcher.
For Cecília, there is great synergy between the research developed during her master’s degree and her work at Labedu. “Throughout my time at Labedu, the exchanges and partnerships were fundamental to my education and to the paths I followed in this research. The opportunity to think about the different aspects of early childhood education in our work certainly contributed to my master’s degree, just as what I studied also had a fruitful impact on my work and my understanding of our proposal.”
The dissertation “Gender in the National Common Curricular Base for Early Childhood Education: setbacks and possibilities for a democratic and plural Early Childhood Education” was supervised by Professor Cláudia Vianna, in the Postgraduate Program in Education and Social Sciences at USP, and will be available for download soon.