A educAção infAntil: reflexões A pArtir do temA do finAnciAmento e conveniAmento em periódicos nAcionAis * the eArly childhood educAtion: reflections from finAncing And Agreements in nAtionAl journAls

In this work we present notes on the financing agreements and arrangements and Brazilian concerning the early childhood education in national journals. This paper comes from a study funded by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) which had as its main objective to map and analyze the topic themes related to agreements and financ - ing of early childhood education from national scientific journals of education, evalu - ated by Federal Agency of Support and Evaluation of Postgraduate Education (CAPES) as A1 (2008 as base year), during the period 2000 to 2010, identifying which journals