Childhood, past and nostalgia: changes in the Intergenerational Transmission

  • Mariano Narodowski Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Keywords: Childhood, pre-figurative culture, post-figurative culture, nostalgias, inter-generational transmission

Abstract

This paper questions the Durkheimian theoretical matrix regarding
the explanation of educational processes, in which the younger
generations were pre-formed by the older ones so as to add proof
that this framework can only be applied in certain historical
circumstances. In the present prefigurative times, the old
asymmetry found in the adults-children/adolescents relation blurs
into more levelled bonds among equals. Using the framework
provided by S. Boym, the reconstructive nostalgic narratives,
which historicize the past to reconstruct it in the present, differ
from the reflexive nostalgic narratives that ironically revolve in
the past to assimilate and comprehend a present no longer marked
by intergenerational asymmetric relationships.

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Published
2014-07-25
How to Cite
Narodowski, M. (2014). Childhood, past and nostalgia: changes in the Intergenerational Transmission. Revista Brasileira De História Da Educação, 14(2[35]), 191-214. Retrieved from https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/rbhe/article/view/38884