CHILDREN'S NARRATIVES AS A POSSIBILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE ATTRIBUTION OF MEANINGS BY CHILDREN

Abstract

This article discusses the potential of children's narratives as a way of attributing meaning to the experiences children have. Methodologically, this is a bibliographical reflection. A new look at children as subjects who are competent to talk about their experiences, which seeks to remove them from their historical silencing and points to the need to understand them from the perspective of their voice. These assumptions situate this study as based on the Sociology of Childhood, which conceives of children as historical, social subjects with rights, whose interpretations of the world need to be known and taken into account. The results show the need to increase the adult's willingness to listen to children, to value dialogue and to deepen the understanding of narratives as an opportunity to organize thought and with implications for the construction of identities.