The text discusses the narrative potential of childhood spaces through the studies about significances and social-educational practices designated to children in Infantile Education. Based on the Cultural Historical Theory, in the ontogenetic approach of Social Representations Theory in dialogue with the notion of active minorities (MOSCOVICI, 2011) and narrative space (SENNETT, 1990) it tries to answer whether the children are capable of influencing the process of significance of the reality and perform social influence. It presents two studies that discuss the nursery as a cultural artifact, whose significances orient the professionalities of educators and regulate structures of opportunities for the development of babies. It reveals the being of babies by a new spatial organization of the nursery announcing learning possibilities and the insertion of the educator in the playful picture of the baby. The analyses of the studies reveal new significations about the child within the context of educational practices and research highlighting its power of creation.
place; narrative; infantile education
