Ética do cuidado: A brinquedoteca como espaço de atenção a crianças em situação de vulnerabilidade

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to report on a research project that originated at the meeting point between the health and social fields with the theory of maturation as the starting point. The field for this research was a community toy library and the individuals involved in the study were children, adolescents and the toy librarians. The daily work and the intervention work followed the precepts of action research, designed and carried out in association with action on or resolution of a collective problem. In constructing a care program for children focused on social factors, thereby establishing connections with other fields of knowledge, it can be understood that new forms of subjectivation and existence have been established, thus breaking the silences and silencing that pervade practices geared to children. The work that we did produced new possibilities for thinking about the human being and the social exclusion processes.