Raise your voice: Kites that speak out. A literacy and creative experience

Abstract

This article reviews the educational experience of a group of fifth-grade students engaging in the project Kites that speak out (Chiringas que hablan). This project encouraged the critical study of children’s rights from its genesis, with the contributions of Januz Korczak, to those currently established by UNICEF. In addition, it presents a series of reading and writing activities that culminate in an artistic product: the creation of kites (chiringas) that represent children’s rights. Thus, the project exhibits the combination of diverse sources of knowledge to develop, among students, multiple ways to communicate and raise their voices, in this case, through the expression of art.