Listening and participation in ethnographic research with children in Early Childhood Education

The aim of this article is to discuss how children were listened to and participated in an ethnographic study on the meanings of time in Early Childhood Education. The research was carried out with 23 pre-school children from a public institution. The methodological strategies were observation, field diary, photography, photo-elicitation and conversation circles. The course of the research is discussed through analytical units that focus on listening and children's participation. Based on the research, it can be inferred that children's listening and participation: promote the exercise of citizenship; demand participatory methodological strategies; enable them to have decision-making power during the investigation.