By investigating the relationship between age and generation among small children and between them and their teachers in an educational and collective context in the public sphere, this article aims to draw a reflective journey of theoretical rupture in the field of Anthropology and Sociology, allied with the Brazilian, Italian and Portuguese productions in the area of education in early childhood, in an attempt to understand the age groups from a generational perspective, thus comparing the children's knowledge, their childhood cultures present in the exchange and negotiation, with the dominant logics, with no negotiations, that states that they cannot do and cannot manage to do. Two points guide this study: the social inheritance, its nature and guarantee of reproduction of the world of order within an excluding capitalist society, and the transgression of small children, their ability to not only reproduce, but also to challenge the chronological, stage and generational determinations imposed.
early childhood education; age; generation; childhood cultures