“The Magic that we have among us...the Children”. Visibility, Strength and Affection of the Children’s Voice

• Main Authors: Grecia J Rodríguez Pinto, Leonardo Albuquerque
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2018-09-01
• Series: Sociedad e Infancias
• Subjects: Niñas y niños; educomunicación; ambiente; ciudadanía infantil; sociología de la infancia.
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/SOCI/article/view/59509

If someone argues that children are human beings, no one will disagree. Nevertheless, some will question the competency of a child as they are supposedly immature. However, children are also people endowed with a number of important qualities. They do have rights, but less than those of adults. Children are not mere receptacles of information, mere subjects of duties and tasks which are defined through intense agendas; on the contrary, they are sources of novel ideas. This has been proved when they are allowed to experience the opportunity to discuss the concepts of citizenship and rights. Using the fundamentals of experiential learning, the project “Educommunication, Environmental and Youth Citizenship” has placed a strong emphasis on the creation of spaces that promote children’s well-being, along with the possibility of learning with wonder and passion. For this purpose, we appeal to incorporating Educommunication, as an emerging field of action into which converge Education and Communication, as well as the Sociology of Chilhood within the framework of a participative methodology that emphasizes children, as creators and protagonists, in word and action, capable of participating and sharing their natural knowledge, with their “full voice”.