CHILDREN'S CULTURES: a study with children in a playground of a religious community in Brasília
childhoods; right to participation; Brasília – DF; playground
This academic work on childhood studies aims to understand children’s voices on their experiences in the playground of a religious community located in Brasília, Brazil. The theoretical contribution is based on the field of childhood studies, with an interdisciplinary perspective linking sociology of childhood and children’s geographies. The search for understanding children’s voices is anchored in the necessary articulation between contents they produce, which have singular and universal meanings. The approach that guides this academic research is qualitative through participatory research, articulating with theoretical and methodological contributions of ethnographic childhood studies. Due to the complexity of the research object, its understanding requires a diversified repertoire of methodological procedures capable of substantiating the listening of children’s voices in the playground context. The immersions in the field point to the playground as a place that allows children’s full development through discoveries and elaboration of peer culture. Children build narratives, operate with laws of physics, and create explanations for phenomena as they play. However, the subordination of this generational group to adults limits their visits to the playground, as it is the adults who decide and control childhood spaces and timings