New subjectivities of early childhood in the paradigm of sustainability

Abstract

The constructed conception of the childhood, as a creation of Modernity that continues to be projected in our days, has been discussed leading to the redefinition of a new idea of childhood in the Postmodern times. On one hand, the communications revolution and simplification in the operation of information and technology have placed children in a position of equity with adults and, secondly, it is noted that the autonomy of children seems powerfully accelerated while stimulating the development and promotion of children amending past standards. In turn, the last century closed with the sustainability approach at the center of public and political debate and the urgent need to renew its consideration and its reformulation into "sustainable development", showing various positions relative to the start of early childhood agency that confront with different models of society and conceptions of the childhood. To this respect, the central aim of the study is to address the subjectivities of young children that are generated on the basis of international discourses on sustainability.