METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN

Abstract

This paper is concerned to the theoretical and methodological choices that seek for valuating and taking the children as privileged subjects in researches about childhood and education. The intention is to open promising ways on defining participation of small children in researches. The study demonstrated the polemics on the researches of children in researches, it is evidenced that the research growth with children has increased the knowledge production about the childhood as well as the interest in developing unconventional methodologies and procedures of research that qualify the children’s voices. Keywords: Methodology; children; research.