O gênero textual documentário: uma proposta de construção de cidadania

Abstract

This research aims to verify how making a documentary about a small community of Lagoa Dourada, Minas Gerais, interfered the perspectives of students from the last years of an Elementary School located there. The methodology chosen was the qualitative research. For this work, the guidelines were established by an action-research, which conducted the development of the project and the training of researchers and students. For the research, it was chosen the case study with ethnographic emphasis, because, in this way, the researcher concentrates on a single case investigating it deeply. Therefore, we could observe the habits and the group living. The intervention work in class consisted of creating a sequence of written and oral activities developed by the group to get to the final product. For the documentary development, the students were introduced to different types of text genders and were asked to write them because they would be necessary to create the final material, as interviews, reports, articles. They were also oriented during workshops to get, select and edit images for the documentary. The written activities were compiled in a pedagogic handbook to guide professors who are interested in elaboration and performing oral and written pedagogical activities, instigating the development of skills related to the proposed gender. The database analysis was made through comparisons between the first production, made before the workshops, and the final ones. The comparison revealed that the students made progresses in writing, acquiring or improving their skills for formal written texts, and they became more conscious of specific aspects of the community in which they live, evidencing their growing as citizens of that community.