Abstract

SIMOES, patrícia maria uchôa; BARBOSA, douglas vasconcelos  and  FERREIRA, milene morais. Ethnography and the field of new social studies of childhood. child.philo [online]. 2023, vol.19, e76908.  Epub Sep 10, 2023. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2023.76908.

The interdisciplinary field of the new social studies of childhood starts from an epistemological break with the classic approaches of the sciences that adopt biological, essentialist and universal views of the child, and finds in ethnography a possibility of conceptualizing the child as an active subject and childhood as a generational social category. The recognition of these concepts of child and childhood by ethnography in research with children implies turning to the child as the other, the different, the foreigner. This proposal for a theoretical-conceptual rupture in the investigation of childhood requires the implementation of methodologies that focus on the experiences, points of view and voices of children, understanding them as subjects-in-process, under constant construction. From this perspective the child is not the object of study, but the subject who interacts with the researcher in the construction of the senses and meanings of the research. This text is organized into three parts that address the epistemological, the theoretical-conceptual, and the methodological aspects of the proposed interaction. The paper ends with an articulation of the relationship between the different aspects of the discussion, culminating in a reflection on ethics and otherness, in the recognition that difference permeates human relations, and that it is the different, the unusual, the incomprehensible, the opposite, the unequal, the unattainable that marks and defines ethnographic research with children.

Keywords : childhood; children; research with children; ethnography..

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