- To promote and re-establish the value of the evolutionary stage of childhood, particularly emphasizing issues related to children’s rights.
- To state the social advantages of an appropriate attention to childhood, although benefits may appear in the long term.
- To enhance study and research on different aspects that have an influence on development and integral education of children nowadays. The family, leisure areas, mass media… and education professionals.
- To relate study and theoretical research to applied research, thus promoting links between different educational contexts and university, by bringing the latter closer to surrounding realities.
- To show the need for participation and coordination between the different contexts or ecosystems where children are.