From narratives and hermeneutics to the visibility of the main actors: boys, girls and young people

Abstract

This is an investigation carried out in the framework of the PhD in Social Sciences, Children and Youth, of CLACSO-CINDE, developed inside the parameters of responsibility and academic, epistemological and methodological demand, enough guarantee for reliability. This research, in addition to using the contributions of the broad spectrum of qualitative research, proposes new alternatives such as the loudness of the voices of the protagonists, such as boys, girls and young people. The place of enunciation is Latin America, considered as a green field and paid to generate new perspectives in research, in dialogue with what was received from outside, but always looking for an identity of its own, which allows it to be read in critical perspective to help get rid of thought colonial that has characterized it by centuries.

Promoting the visibility of children and young people as main actors is the central purpose of this research work; they are the ones who narrate in the school environment and in the Latin American environment, where the so-called epistemologies of the South and Latin American Environmental Thought emerge in a powerful way.