A ampliação da democracia a partir da participação cidadã de crianças : uma possibilidade para o enfrentamento de invisibilidades e vulnerabilidades na infância

Abstract

From the recent discussions on citizen participation of children in public space this paper is unfolded, assuming that the articulation of children towards active citizenship extends the democratic process and leads to face conditions of rights violations, vulnerability and invisibility still present in Brazilian childhoods. Thus, child participation is here defended as something fundamental to improve the living conditions of children, their families and their communities, and to enable other gains such as discussing other forms of entity relationships adults and children, contribute to other possibilities understanding of childhood and promote discussion of the need for articulation between representative democracy and participatory democracy.