A cidadania e o brincar: ensaio sobre cidadania infantil e desenvolvimento de ferramentas de escuta lúdica para a cidade de Sobral.

Abstract

This paper investigates how the relationship between children and the city influences the full exercise of children’s citizenship. To this end, it discusses the silencing of childhood and the invalidation of children as political actors, and explores some mechanisms of the political-social context that support this scenario. In order to understand children in their particular forms of expression, play is also a theme explored in this paper. Finally, the discussion leads to a series of meetings with children from a private school in the city of Sobral-CE, in which games are played in order to better understand how children communicate. Inspired by the experience with this group of children, an activity book was developed, with the aim of serving as a bridge between children and adults, as a means of disseminating the particular demands and perceptions of children about the city in which they live.