This paper intends to analyse and discuss what happens in the search for orientations in childhood education, and the way the professionals, specially the psychologists, are answering to this solicitations. The approach adopted is interdisciplinary, and at the same time it is studied: a) what the adults are experiencing in their role as socializes, the difficulties and the problems faced; b) the different types of "technical and scientific'' orientations passed; c) the need for another kind of support, also to understand better and to propose interventions strategies, from adjacent knowledge areas as childhood, education and family history.
Interdisciplinary; educator's orientation; socialization; childrearing practices