Rural childhoods: interdisciplinary dialogues

Abstract

When we look at the importance of children and childhood in the history of academic work, we are led to admit that both were, for a long time, both ignored and silenced in scientific research. In saying this, we are highlighting that, in general, children themselves took time to emerge as legitimate 'subjects' of childhoods in research, although they have been very present as 'objects' in investigations in the medical, pedagogical, psychological sciences etc. In some measure, but real and less poetic, it was as if children and childhood “were not”.