CHILDREN, CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION AND BODY

This article brings reflections about the need of understanding children, and their varied childhoods, as a social category and highlights a conception of the body as biologic and social at the same time, making possible and necessary the comparison of relations between children, education and body. These reflections aim to be a contribution for constituting individuals with rights; bringing ideas for a Childhood Pedagogy in the context of educational interventions, which affect mainly on the children's corporal dimension. This is a theoretic reflection research, applying history-culture-oriented studies on contributions from Childhood Sociology, Child Anthropology and other areas studying the childhood, aiming a multi-disciplinary link on the approach of this relation between body, childhood and education.