Abstract

ARAUJO, Vania Carvalho de et al. The meanings attributed by children to the city. Educação. Porto Alegre [online]. 2018, vol.41, n.2, pp.212-222.  Epub July 04, 2019. ISSN 1981-2582.  https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2018.2.30542.

This paper shows part of the results of an exploratory study performed with 220 children from ten cities of the State of Espírito Santo registered in the institutions of childhood education. It aims at discussing the meanings attributed by the children to the city, highlighting some constraints by which they pass due to being excluded from the city planning and from the broader social spaces. Children's narratives reveal the paradoxical movement between the invisibility of children and the capacity of children's cultures to launch new discursive devices that allow to build other rationalities about their experience with the city. To consider the different ways of symbolization of children is to perceive that they carry with them the marks of adult's culture, at the same time that they are able to undertake other meanings about reality, what reveals a universe of peculiar meaning about the city, whose subtleties constitute a social legacy appropriate to children's cultures, even in full articulation with adult's cultures.

Keywords : Children and city; Children education and city; City and childhood.

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