A Grammar of Oppressed Childhood

Abstract

This article is the result of a qualitative-documentary research, which sought to identify ‘a grammar’ of oppressed childhood based on a review of the references, meanings, and evocations that Paulo Freire makes about children in some of his works. Three elements of this grammar were identified. Oppressed childhood appears in corporations marked by hunger and malnutrition, the views on the imposition of silence in the child’s voice, and the historical oppression imposed by the racist and colonial matrix. Thus, the conclusions include some announcements addressing oppressed children’s education.