Desafios da contemporaneidade para a família: um olhar sobre o cuidado

Abstract

This text is the result of an inter-institutional research that sought to identify and understand the marks of caring and being cared for in the narratives of children, their teachers and their families, in daycare centers, preschools and schools. It aims to present interviews conducted with families, discussing their understanding of care. As a methodology, it presents individual and collective interviews with families, with Martin Buber as the main theoretical interlocutor. In the analyzes, care emerges as protection and surveillance, time to be together, presence, as something that needs to be shared. In arid and difficult times, thinking about caring and being cared for contributes to the recognition of the humanity of the other as a possible way to go against the barbarism.