Abstract

CASTRO, Lucia Rabello de. "we need to talk about break-time!": the construction of the common by children in school. child.philo [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.29, pp.129-148. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2018.30560.

The present article analyses the possibilities of producing the common in school by the children. Schools have favoured the development of individualities centred on aims of self-realization and individual competitive performance. Beyond these identifications that secure personal interests and survival, the conviviality with the others in school poses demands that allow for children's mobilization in the construction of collective senses, actions, territories and social spaces. In the present work, the issue of the break-time constitutes the dispositif whereby children institute, however ephemerally and punctually, singular points of view on their particular gerational position in school. We discuss the results of an empirical research carried out in a municipal school in Rio de Janeiro and argue for the "public voice of children" in their process of collectively engaging to recreate the school context. We conclude considering the relevance of bridging the distance between the fields of politics and childhood as it seems necessary to give an answer to the question about what childhood has to do with democracy.

Keywords : childhood; common; break-time; school; public subjectivization.

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