Na América decolonial: crianças ou infâncias? Uma interrogação sobre a teorização da fase inicial da vida

Abstract

This paper intends to bring to the scene reflections on the development of the child in the historical horizon of a decolonial Brazil, using hermeneutics as an interpretative practice of reading, and proposes a comprehensive dialogue between decolonial thought and phenomenology. The Existential Phenomenological perspective contributes to think of the child as being in-the-world, breaking with the child scrutinized by the theories of child development. Postcolonial and decolonial studies have proposed to investigate the historical sense in which we are developing criticism of a Eurocentric model originated within the political, economic and social crises. The invisibility of difference prevents us from focusing on the subject that is constantly revealed, thinking about a child from his or her culture, promotes human rights, rules and public policies.