Rela es de idade e gera o na Educa o Infantil: ou porque é bem mais melhor a gente ser grande Age and generation relationships in Early Childhood Education: or "because it is much better for us to be big"

Ao investigar as rela es de idade e gera o entre crian as pequenas e delas com as professoras em contexto educativo e coletivo na esfera pública, este artigo busca tra ar um percurso reflexivo de rupturas teóricas, no campo da Antropologia e da Sociologia, aliadas às produ es brasileiras, italianas e portuguesas na área da educa o da infancia, na tentativa de compreender os grupos de idade a partir de uma perspectiva geracional. Confronta os saberes infantis e suas culturas inscritas na troca e na negocia o, com a lógica dominante sem negocia es que afirma que elas n o podem e n o conseguem. Dois pontos balizam este estudo: a heran a social, sua natureza e garantia de reprodu o do mundo da ordem numa sociedade capitalista excludente; e a transgress o das crian as pequenas, suas possibilidades de n o somente reproduzir, como também de questionar as determina es cronológicas, etapistas e geracionais impostas. 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.