Social thinking on childhood

This paper aims to thread together some ideas to understand and explain the configuration of discourses and social representations in the history of social thought on childhood, starting with colonisation, and the imposition of a hierarchical and authoritarian pattern of power on the family and on indigenous, black and mestizo children, in the process of the coloniality of power and knowledge. Currently, in the social imaginary there are two cultural knots in dispute when it comes to childhood: the relational rationality of the original cultures from the global South; and Western instrumental rationality, which was consolidated in Peru with the social pact of modernity in the 19th century, and which persists to this day.

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Researcher on children's issues. Guest lecturer in the postgraduate units of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and in the postgraduate unit of the Faculty of Social Work of the Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú - Huancayo. He has published books on children's issues.