From the side of the children. The challenge of childhood studies to sociology of education

Three recent works by Valerio Belotti, made in collaboration with other Italian scholars, with no doubt enriched in a field of study – sociology of infant age – which is still unripe in Italy and make circulating important theoretical inputs and empirical results drawn from the international debate around the social role of children in the ageing society. In this note I refer particularly to what the author edited in 2010 and 2011, as products not only of a wide disciplinary state of art (he teaches Policies for children and adolescents at the University of Padova) but also as a corpus of empirical researches carried out when he was the coordinator of CNDAIA (Centro nazionale di documentazione e analisi per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza from 2007 to 2011.