Cuidado y protección desde la vida buena en la voz de los niños y niñas

Abstract

The following document presents theoretical and methodological approaches, along with a study of testimonies on the research framework Care and protection from the Good Life in children's voices, whose purpose is to identify and analyze the narrative of the children, the idea of good life based on the thinking of Paul Ricoeur, in order to focus attention on the understanding of good life regarding ''Children's rights''. Among the main findings, we can observe how the formulation of Children's rights and public policies are made starting from an adult perception of childhood and children's needs, and they don't involve them as active participants or legal subjects in building their guarantees. Talking about the good life, allowed children who participated in the investigation to think about their rights and guarantees from the contextual and cultural conditions, attending to their self-esteem, the relations they have, and two fair institutions (School-Family). The good life is told by the children as a space where different realities can be configured from their socialization process, and they relate to their needs, preferences, and projections, to establish their own guarantees and those around them, on the caring and protection dynamics.