ABSTRACT:
Having as object of analysis two films of Japanese director and screenwriter Hirokazu Kore-Japanese Eda - Nobody knows (2004) and I Wish(2011) -, the current essay aims at a particular type of problematizing of contemporary educational experience. The discussions, supported by the Foucauldian theorization, focus on the hypothesis of a type of mutation in the ways how adults relate to children, indicating the emergence of childhood as an experience of solitude, and this, as an effect of an inflicted leading role of the younger ones in complementary opposition to either the inoperability or the avoidance of the older ones. Closing the discussions, the essay presents some ethical-political directions chairing a way to live with children embodied in a general art of encounter.
Keywords :
Foucauldian studies; Contemporary education; Childhood; Japanese Cinema