Abstract

ALMEIDA, Tiago  and  COSTA, Luciano Bedin da. Children's cartography: methodological approaches followed by experiences with children and adolescents from portugal and brazil. child.philo [online]. 2021, vol.17, e56968.  Epub Feb 27, 2021. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2021.56968.

This article has a double objective that aims to situate, theoretically and empirically, children's cartography as a research methodology. In a first movement, we will situate children's cartography in its epistemological and philosophical bases, having as inspiration the cartographic conceptions of the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari and his commentators. The introduction of cartography with children shifts our research perspectives to include dimensions that were once imperceptible or relegated to a plane of lesser value: it maps, not just what children see, but what they say, and chronicles the coexistence of children and the world in ways not previously available to adult-organized research vehicles. We illustrate by chronicling two cartographic experiences carried out with children and young people from Portugal and Brazil, and finish with a reflection on how researchers might configure mapping experiences that act to open the worlds of adults and children to each other.

Keywords : children’s cartography; childhood; research; philosophy of difference.

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