Ethics in ethnographic research with children: first problematizations

• Autor(a) principal: Barbosa, Maria Carmen Silveira
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Práxis Educativa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/praxiseducativa/article/view/6389

This article discusses the issue of ethics in ethnographic research with children. This discussion has become crucial because many works in the field of childhood sociology, anthropology of children and educational research is based on the ethnographic research. In Brazil, children are considered vulnerable people. Thus, all research with children need prior approval from ethic committees, finding problems to be approved, as it involves the legislation in three aspects: the concept of basically vulnerable child, forgetting the possibilities of children’s participation and protagonism; the issue of the ethnographic method, as it is required a fully defined methodology before entering the field; and restrictions to the capture and the dissemination of images and products made by the children. These issues need to be discussed so that ethic is built not only for researches on and about the children, but, mainly, with and for the children, that can protect and also affirm their capacity as subjects with rights.   Keywords: Ethics in research. Childhood. Research.