Education, cultural contexts and childhood: dialogues with south american productions

Abstract

The great diversity of South America, in theirs diverse countries and histories, is immersed in a variety of contexts that mix languages, political, economic, social trajectories, and ethnic compositions that pass through children‘s lives. This characteristic has demanded efforts of the researchers who focus the children as social agents and producers of culture, taking into account these concepts from the sociocultural reality that children are inserted. Based on an exploratory research of the studies and scientific productions of Childhood Studies in South America in Spanish-speaking countries, this article aims to analisy the educational themes identified in the research with and about children, considering the cultural contexts, as well as to point out aspects of education in the productions of the countries where the presence of the field with more density was identified. It is also important highlight that the cultural contexts in which children are immersed besides social and educational policies to childhood set up the children’s experiences in educational institutions, being important to consider the diversity and multiplicity of childhoods in the educational processes.