The cooperative games with children: communitarianism and citizenship

The communication is based on an investigation (of doctorate realized by Christine Vargas Lima - 2019) on the cooperative games. The central problem was the cooperative games and the construction of citizenship. This problem originated in the observation of children plagued by floods in southern Brazil in 2014 and in the verification that the game (s) (cooperative) was decisive in mitigating pain and at the same time was decisive in the relationship, affective, collaborative relationships between children and between children and adults. Faced with this empirical evidence, a cut in the investigation was established, in which a school of the neighbourhood reached by the floods was analysed. Thus, through participant observation, field diary and interviews, it was attempted to know the characteristics, representations, languages about games (cooperative) of thirty five children. One of the results (conclusions - we will present the ones related to children) of this study showed that cooperative games constitute a first manifestation of "living together" and therefore one of the first forms of human organization – communitarianism.Portuguese national funds through the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) within the framework of the CIEC (Research Center for Child Studies of the University of Minho) project under the reference UID/CED/00317/201