Curriculum and early childhood education: a systematic review

ABSTRACT This review was undertaken with the objective of knowing how the curriculum of early childhood education has been problematized by national and international researchers. Once the stages of delimitation of the research universe were concluded, the research corpus was constituted of 30 articles, between national and international. After analyzing the productions, they were grouped by semantic approximation, thus originating four conceptual categories: curriculum and early childhood education; the lived curriculum; early childhood education and the Brazilian National Common Curricular Base for Children's Education (BNCC-EI); the challenge of accepting childhood times. The similarity of the identified problems, their aggravating factors, the perpetuation of some of them, having challenged teachers and researchers throughout the history of early childhood education, underlie and provide, in themselves, a rich, forceful and representative material of the reality of early childhood education in the Brazilian and international context.