This study intended to investigate whether children acknowledge some of their rights, which knowledge about their rights are shared among them and what are the meanings of childhood these sharings indicate. It is a comparative study guided by the social-historical psychological approach of which data were analyzed qualitatively. The participants consisted of 21 children, aging from 9 to 11 years old. Seven children were students in a private urban school, seven studied in a public urban school, and seven studied in a public school located in the countryside. The individual semi-structured interview technique was used, based on the presentation of printed images. Rights referring food and nourishment, education and playing were the most acknowledged by children. Concerning to the interdicted childish working or the right referring inviolability of the physical integrity, they demonstrated different ways of sharing.
Children's rights; childhood; meanings
