Abstract
This reflection is the result of theoretical-philosophical research to draw an argumentative overview of social practices that involve governing children and childhood, considering some modern assumptions potentially active in today’s world. Therefore, we seek to broaden views on children and childhood that emerge from the visibility ascribed to them in modernity, within the polarization between humanities and hard sciences. We also seek to reaffirm the importance of children’s role in the educational process as authors and actors of learning, of agency, of the status of a subject-body capable of feeling, thinking and acting, and not being treated as a body-object-hostage of authority and of the adultcentrism that de-motivates it.
Keywords:
Children; Childhood education; Government; Human body