Child's life as a work of art

The concept of childhood is socially constructed and involves several social and political subjects, among them the academia and, obviously, children. Several researchers point out that there have been (and/or there are) modifications on the concept of childhood after the access and/or presence/participation of children in the media public spheres. Our problem arises from an "invisibility" of children's knowledge, even about what it means to be a child. This is because many times the agenciamentos are understood as adultized elements, mere expression of the "disappearance or erasure of childhood", since it "places a voice" in the child, instead of dialoguing with it. This work moves in another direction, that of valuing their voices. In this way, we define the central question of this research: what are the meanings that a group of rural children produces about the concept of childhood and, in this way, about themselves and about their agency in a relationship mediated by cartoons?