RESEARCH ON CHILDHOOD AND CHILDREN AS RESEARCHERS: PARTICIPATIVE METHODOLOGIES OF SOCIAL WORLDS OF THE CHILDREN

In the second modernity the childhood participation is assumed as a fundamental principle to a large extent of the scientific speeches that are produced concerning childhood. The Sociology of Childhood, when considering the children as social actors and as citizens of rights, assumes the question of children’s participation as central in the definition of a social statute of childhood and in the characterization of its scientific field. Consider children’s participation in the research is a recurrent step in the construction of a discipline of social sciences that looks for listen children’s voice, that is, that assumes children as full social actors, competent in the formularization of interpretations on its worlds of life and revealers of the social realities in which they are insert. This paper steady in participative research work, developed in the Sociology of Childhood, interrogates the knowledge’s construction of the social sciences with and on children and childhood, considering the alterity and diversity, and including an ethical debate on the knowledge creation about the social worlds of childhood