the right to childhood and the community of inquiry

Résumé

Throughout the world there exist communities of extreme poverty in which children do not have access to school and hardly benefit from childhood rights established by the United Nations. The community of inquiry is a philosophical practice that allows us to reach these children and initiate them into democratic practices through philosophical dialogue and the development of critical and creative thinking. In this article we ask: “What are the challenges and/or the tasks that philosophic practice in such communities of extreme poverty are able to confront?” Key Words: Latin-American infancy; extreme poverty; marginality; education.