Walter Benjamin and the childhood experience: contributions to early childhood education

This article reflects on Benjamin's critical theory of culture and modernity as a contribution for professionals and researchers of child education. Exploring the polysemy of the concept of experience in Benjamin work, it develops the idea of child experience (consisting of a mixture of complexity and subtlety), with the help also of texts produced by the critics of the culture and modernity theory. It ends emphasizing Walter Benjamin's contributions for the childhood education field, seeing it as a relational space that contributes to the development of contemporary childhood.