Sociology of childhood and early childhood education studies: Some data about this interface in Brazil

In Brazil, the perspective of children as social actors expanded empirical studies about children in different contexts, bringing out the sociology of childhood as research field. To know more about the strengthening of sociology of childhood, we investigated research groups that claim the field as theoretical or/and methodological framework of their research.

We identified 25 groups of research, of which 16 located in educational area, mainly related to early childhood education. In this sense, our interest now is to know how is constituted this interface between sociology of childhood and early childhood education, and, more, how could be the consequences of this interdisciplinary studies both for sociology of childhood and early childhood education studies.

The present study is funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).