The children’s place in the debates over public policies for the city: an analysis of candidate programs for Rio de Janeiro City Hall in 2016

• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Ligia Maria Leão de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/faced/article/view/31022
• topic: Childhood and city. Public policies for children. Rio de Janeiro. Government programs.; Infancia y ciudad. Políticas públicas para la infancia. Rio de Janeiro. Programas de gobierno.; Infância e cidade. Políticas públicas para a infância. Rio de Janeiro. Programas de governo.

The article aims to discuss the theme of rights and public policies in the city towards to childhood, analyzing candidates’ programs for the Rio de Janeiro City Hal in 2016, wondering about the place of children in the government programs of the eleven candidates for the City of Rio de Janeiro Mayor, on the term of 2017-2020. The reflection on rights and public policies in the city from the children’s perspective as an exercise of such perspective, not through their speeches or manifestations, but through the understanding of childhood as a power, understanding that it is possible to study childhood through itself and assuming a movement of interpretation of the material investigated with the children’s look. It is not a matter of returning to childhood, but of adopting an understanding of childhood and children as active and cultural subjects, as social actors themselves. The analysis made clear how much more it is necessary to invest and negotiate in a discourse production which affirms the children’s place as subjects of rights, the fundamental rights to the person.