Abstract

GADELHA, Sylvio. Management of poor children by society and government. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2013, n.65, pp.233-256. ISSN 0120-3916.

Getting distance from certain perspectives of history of mentalities and other approaches that assume the existence of a unique model of childhood, corresponding to the petit bourgeois nuclear family, this text, following Donzelot (1980) and a makeable Foucauldian guidance considers more accurate to speak of modernity that allowed the simultaneous construction of two different conceptions of childhood: on one hand, ''petit bourgeois'' and on the other hand, poor or working childhood. Based on this differentiation, this text aims to explore the following ideas: 1 ) in our present, both the government and control of subjectivity and child behaviors (whether those related to poor children (excluded) or childhood petit bourgeois origin) are made through the strategy of widespread entrepreneurialism of society and education; 2) in the case of poor children (excluded), its government and control is primarily exerted through policies, helping programs or socio-cultural or socio-educational projects orientated eminently by biopolitics, which work in close harmony with the trend to widespread entrepreneurialism of society and education.

Keywords : Governing childhood; management; neoliberal governmentality.

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