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MATIAZZI, Shellen de Lima; SIMOES, Renata Duarte  e  VIEIRA, Alexandro Braga. Questions about poverty: what children enrolled in early childhood education say. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2024, vol.40, e88542.  Epub 31-Out-2024. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0411.88542.

This article comes from the questions that arose in meetings with children aged 5 and 6, enrolled in a class at a Municipal Center for Early Childhood Education (CMEI), located in a peripheral neighborhood of the city of Vitória, in Espírito Santo. It investigates how children understand poverty and what they (re)produce from the social imaginaries about it while problematizing this condition by conceptualizing it as a complex phenomenon with multiple facets. As a methodology, it adopts participatory research, with conversation circles and the production of drawings by children, elements relevant to the pedagogical routine of Early Childhood Education. To support the debate, it uses authors such as Arroyo (2019), Sarmento (2002, 2004), and Rego and Pinzani (2014). The results show that children are not alien to the impoverished contexts in which they live, announcing how they interpret the condition of poverty and deal with it. Children understand that this condition presupposes the denial of fundamental rights, such as the right to housing, food, and deprivation of the use of basic social services. Considering that children are subjects of knowledge and culture; the school cannot neglect the debate on the theme of poverty in Early Childhood Education and overcome moralizing views of poverty.

Palavras-chave : Child Education; Research With Children; Poverty.

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