Indigenous children in the village spaces: research challenges

Abstract

The aim of this article is to look at indigenous children and childhood from the perspectives, under development, of social and anthropological studies, which seek, with their own methods, to see children as social agents, producers of children’s cultures and belonging to generational group of their own. The results showed that the education of indigenous children takes place in the diversity of everyday spaces experienced in the village, in the interrelationships with the elderly and their peers, in the autonomous circularity of territories. It was also evident the low conduction of researches produced with indigenous children about how they see their world.