Pesquisa sobre pesquisas, memória científica e balanço da produção na base de dados dos estudos da infância entre 2000-2022

The database of childhood studies between 2000 and 2022, with a total of 4,015 works — being 2,023 dissertations and thesis available in CAPES portal, 563 ANPEd complete works and 1,429 papers in Qualis A1/A2 — was used as reference to analyze researches on researches aiming to get to know, recognize and strengthen the scientific memory of this field of academic research. Which studies in this database had the objective to present some kind of balance of the academic production on child, childhood and Child Education? To answer this central question, we sought in all the database works those studies that have analyzed the field production. We founded 40 (forty) researches with this aim, being 22 dissertations, 2 thesis, 4 ANPEd works and 12 papers. The balance of the production between 1970 and 2021 emphasized the following themes: evaluation, teacher training, child reading, writing and literature, with emphasis on content analysis and discourse analysis.