Tiempo de estudiar, tiempo de trabajar: la conceptualización de la infancia y la participación de los niños en la vida productiva como experiencia formativa

Many anthropological studies establish that childhood, as a social category, is an historical and socio-cultural product associated with a biological development process. From these positions it is possible to consider the human child incorporation into society, considering time as sociality parameter. This conceptualization allows discussion about the modern idea of childhood as first stage of a mono-chronic and linear time development, period devoted to learning adulthood -defined as a working time in opposition to latter. Childhood conceived as a first of a succession of stages clearly dist...