The latest data from the Democracy Index, edited by the Economist Intelligence Unit's, returns a patchy world map where only 6.4 percent of the world's population involved in the survey lives in contexts that can be considered “fully democratic”.

This obliges researchers to take a careful epistemic-methodological posture, marked by the analysis of the historical-material conditions of education, in order to derive the pedagogical patterns (explicit and implicit) that guide the formation of the imaginaries, ethical tables, and formae mentis of childhoods.

What does it mean “the childhood of dictatorships”? what childhoods are born and have been born in dictatorships? what “childhoods do dictatorships communicate”?