Infant Education in Brazil

The Inter-American Development Bank released in December a study, "Measuring Education Quality in Brazil," and shared with ExchangeEveryDay by Aimee Verdisco, on the quality of care being provided in crèches (programs serving infants and toddlers) in Brazil.  Key findings include...

• Overall, the results of this study find latitude for improving the quality of services provided in Brazil’s crèches and preschools, particularly in terms of what goes on inside the bricks and mortar.
• Interior spaces are generally classified as “basic" — furniture available for daily classroom activities and resources available for providing comfort to children appear as “inadequate.”  This raises safety concerns, among others.
• "Activities” — the heart of the pedagogical model implemented in classrooms and thought to be essential building blocks for ensuring positive outcomes in school and later in life — are an area requiring attention from policy makers.
• Poorest performance was found in activities in dramatic play and in nature and science, suggesting that few, if any, opportunities exist for children in the tested centers to explore the world around them and engage in language-rich activities.
• Similarly, activities related to using blocks, which are quite universally recognized as important for developing basic notions of number, size and problem-solving, received one of the lowest scores.
  

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