Miúdas epistemologies: accessing knowledge produced by children

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Ananda da Luz
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Chiara, Ana Rita Silva Almeida, Martins, Herbert Toledo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/31411
• topic: Children; Childhoods; Sociology of Childhood; Epistemology; Crianças; Infâncias; Sociologia da Infância; Epistemologia

Researches involving children require a different methodological approach from those who carry them out, as it is necessary for the person who will carry out the research to understand that children are subjects, with their languages, who intervene directly in the social groups they are part of. Based on the Sociology of Childhood, this article aims to highlight the debate on the importance of research involving children considering them as producers of knowledge and cultures with a direct impact on the territories they inhabit. Also because children influence and are influenced by society, not being passive in their environment, but agents. For this, a qualitative bibliographical research was carried out that covered the theme. Thus, from the discussions presented in the text, we intend to present how relevant it is to carry out research with and among children, in a methodological change of rupture with adultcentrism, which is limited to their reflections on children. It is important to carry out research that takes into account the knowledge produced by children from active listening to their voices and their many languages so that we do not speak for them, but with them. For this, we weave a debate about childhood and children, in order to understand the singularities and pluralities that their conceptualizations carry. We also present listening as a way of materializing this other epistemological practice: the construction of knowledge produced by young people, small people who need to be recognized for their power.