Abstract

RINCON VERDUGO, Cecilia. Historiography on the imaginary meanings of childhood in the western culture. Rev.hist.educ.latinoam. [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.31, pp.25-46. ISSN 0122-7238.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01227238.6245.

This article presents the research doctoral work entitled “Imaginaries about childhood, public policies and pedagogical practices", - UNAM-2013. Here it is shown how, from the theory of social imaginaries, it is possible to explain the constitution of society and the emergence of social and cultural proposals that question and rethink the social dynamics instituted, as well as the interactions between subjects and culture.

The analysis and interpretation were carried out from a qualitative - interpretive historical approach, and we aimed to unveil the imaginaries as forms of legitimation of the social order and as a process that occurs between continuities, ruptures, discontinuities; in accordance with the historical time. In our western culture, every culture has configured that magma of imaginary meanings about childhood. Each period, each society, their living conditions, their treatment conventions, their adult-child interactions, and their childhood experience have shaped the notion of childhood in different moments of the development of the West.

Methodologically, historiography assumed the dynamics of social imagina ries' construction that occurs between “the evident" and “the opacity", so that, to interpret; unveil; and unravel them, books; files; and articles were taken as a documentary source that allowed us to understand how childhood and children have been studied and conceptualized at different in the western culture. This historiography reveals the permanence or transformations in the way people mean childhood.

Keywords : childhood; imaginary meanings; historiography; the Instituting and the Instituted..

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