Philosophical and sociological contributions on childhood

Authors

  • Vera Lúcia Chacon Valença Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n2p689

Abstract

Abstract

The central core of this article is to be found in some philosophical and sociological contributions on the history of childhood and its repercussions on educational relationships. A theoretical revision of the childhood history led to a childhood of exclusion, abandoned, without affection in ancient times, and later on, in modern times, resulted in a childhood constituted by “another child”, with recognised legal rights. However, this equal, but different “other” and the contemporary childhood represented by “another child” is different, but has equal rights. So, the challenge for current educators consists of knowing how to relate with paradoxical alternating recognition of the different childhood, but with equal rights, exercising an horizontal hierarchy that enables the construction of identity and the search of the children´s  autonomy

Keywords: Childhood. Theoretical contributions. Educational repercussions.

Author Biography

Vera Lúcia Chacon Valença, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)

Doutora em Psicologia Aplicada pela Université Paris Descartes, França. Professora da Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL).

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Published

2015-12-31

How to Cite

Valença, V. L. C. (2015). Philosophical and sociological contributions on childhood. Perspectiva, 33(2), 689–705. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n2p689

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Vol. 33 No. 2 (2015): Mobile technologies at school: tensions between public policies and their (re)configurations practices

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Articles in continuous demand

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