Letramentos em uma escola pública : uma reflexão crítico-dialógica

Abstract

The general purpose of this research was to investigate the reading and writing practices of sixth and ninth year students from a public school in the county of Rondonópolis, Mato Grosso, and to develop thoughtful meetings with teachers, in order to know their conceptions and practices regarding to teaching-learning reading, aimed to contribute to a critical thinking about those practices. In this way, to help the school, not only to look at the student and the teaching of mother tongue critically, but that it should start to mold young proficient readers. For that matter, the proposed task intended to observe reading theories and critical literacy (FREIRE, 1987, 1996; THE NEW LONDON GROUP, 1996, 2012; CASSANY, 2005; PEREIRA, 2010, and ROJO, 2004, 2009, 2012). Besides those authors, it was also resorted the theoretical presuppositions of Bakhtin´s Circle, along with the Vygotsky´s learning theory and human development, and the authors who devote to study them. The methodology approach was the qualitative one, of dialogic and engaging nature. The data analyzed revealed, in one hand, that the students take part in diversified practices of writing(s) in outside school contexts, on the other hand, the activities developed within the school context are still the simplest and traditional ones like: reading and coping texts from the school book, coping texts and exercises from the board, writing compositions, among others. On the first meetings with the teachers, the apprehensions of the subject teachers about these reading and practices were stamped with uncertainty about the lack of their comprehension on how to deal with school problems. According to the sequences of meetings, the teachers discourses was revealing that their understanding about the literacy of the students, school context and their practices were showing changes, revealing a personal and interpersonal reflexive motion. It was observed, hence, that those reflexive meetings can constitute a productive action in the school context and the teacher training.