El encuentro intergeneracional entre niños y ancianos como contexto de construcción de ciudadanía en la infancia

Resumen

This paper presents reflections on how the education of new generations for citizen participation in social life can be fostered by projects that promote intergenerational encounters between children and the elderly. As a theoretical contribution of the work, contributions from authors addressing the interconnections between childhood, citizenship and education, such as Hannah Arendt and Manuel Sarmento. The methodological design of the study focused on conducting ethnographic research, in the “Elderly Masters of Life” project, developed in public schools in Concordia/SC, It was possible to observe that the project functioned as a co-education space, enabling the expansion of the horizon of experiences of children and the elderly. It was found that the practice of making comparisons and relationships between the present and the historical past gave children the opportunity to reflect on societal changes that have affected the organization of social life in the present and other times, as well as the senses and implications of these changes, a process that represents a fundamental vector for the constitution of subjects full citizens, capable of being responsible not only for individual citizenship, but also community and social.