ECA 30 YEARS: RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to promote, critically, a public awareness of the importance and implementation of the Law No. 8.069/90, named the Child and Adolescent Statute - ECA, as of the 30th anniversary celebration. The reflection brought up intends to highlight it as the main normative instrument in Brazil for the protection of the children and youth population, especially with the contextual view of their peculiar condition of development and the position of the subject of rights, among many, in early childhood education, it concerns the constitutional legal order and related legislation. And all this happens at the level of care and protection of childhood as a phase of human life, integrated with the dimension of citizenship, considerably through the duty of the State and the family, in collaboration with society. To the point that compares the main facts and reasons that replaced the old Code of minors and the current assistance, taking into account the protection and socio-educational proposals, from the angle of advancement of ECA, with the perspective directed towards personal and social development. In deep interpretive contours that, the conclusion unfolds on the relational dynamics between ECA, education and citizenship in order to form for children a voice, truly reasonable and prudent, of recognition and political participation, in order to project a more democratic fair, egalitarian and inclusive.