Questões éticas e metodológicas em pesquisas sobre scripts de gênero com crianças pequenas

Abstract

The article problematizes the ethical and methodological issues involved in research on gender scripts with young children, highlighting the importance of expanding the understanding of children's participation in investigative processes. Grounded in Gender Studies and the Sociology of Childhood from a post-structuralist perspective, the study's main objective was to analyze the strategies children employ to circumvent and reinterpret gender scripts, which are often naturalized in everyday school life. Methodologically, this is an ethnographic study conducted with a group of 17 four-year-old children in a public school in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre. The investigation highlights the need to broaden understandings of participatory research with children. Furthermore, it offers reflections on research ethics involving children, structuring it around what we refer to as the before, during, and after of the investigation.