The volume covers the principles and theoretic cores concerning the childhood

pedagogy, widening the perspective from the cross-disciplinary side - the

connection between the other sciences and the sciences of the education - to the

ethical and deontological side - the educative function, on an epistemological

basis The study has a multi-focus character and perspective and it aims at the

systematising of some basic pedagogical categories (the individual, the game,

the development, the growth, the care, the intention...) putting them in our

theoretical context, characterized by the intersection, mixing up, and the constant

getting over the traditional frames of reference, source for the 20^th century

pedagogy: the activism, the constructivism, ethology and psychoanalysis.

The volume is addressed to the ones who need a preparatory text to the childhood

pedagogy (educators, teachers, and the people willing to deepen the theory and

epistemology of the child's education in the first and second childhood with a

particular attention to the Italian situation and tradition).