Childhood: disappearance or metamorphosis?

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the theme of childhood. It results from theoretical research of a qualitative nature with the objective of problematizing the emergence of the concept of childhood and its possible disappearance or metamorphosis in the contemporary scenario. There is talk of the emergence of childhood as a concept created from modernity and that it has been disappearing because of the transformations through which contemporary society is passing. Children have always existed throughout history, however, have been treated according to social models and the characteristics of each society and time. The concept of childhood then comes to be interpreted and seen in the way children are culturally perceived. Reflecting on childhood becomes a mechanism of fruitful interaction to discuss the reality of children today and thus understand the role of school in a world of meanings produced in social mediations and articulations. The text gives visibility to the discussion of the tense relationship between adult and child, authority and autonomy, participation and mimicking from part of children, which implies experiences with the differences between children and adults in the culture of digital circularity, retaking and stimulating the joint construction in school everyday.