A influência dos percursos históricos da modernidade na construção dos discursos sobre a infância

Abstract

Reflecting on the emergence of modernity and its forms of subjectivation makes it possible to understand the production of social patterns that, at times, ended up stiffening singularity and blurring diversity, especially that of children. Aiming at the constitutive processes of society and their respective transformations, this article aims, through a bibliographic review of renowned authors on the theme, to explain how the impositions of modernity underpinned the construction of social standards that cross several institutions nowadays, including the school. Thus, this text presents itself as a possibility of a source of research for the reader who seeks to understand the constitution of discourses around the concep.