A defasagem em leitura e escrita dos alunos da Escola Estadual Professor Benjamim Araújo: um desafio para os gestores da atualidade

Abstract

The present dissertation was conducted within the scope of the Professional Master‟s course in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the Public Policies and Evaluation of Education Center at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). It has the objective of understanding the main difficulties faced by the students who achieve the Sixth Grade at the State School Professor Benjamin Araújo without the needed skills in reading and writing. So, we investigate which have been the obstacles for solving the problems related to the gaps in reading and writing of some students from the investigated school. To do so, this research is based on concepts of literacy by authors, such as Costa Val (2006), Kleiman (2007), Soares (2003), Botelho (2011), among others. The research procedures were based on the results of the internal and external evaluation and on the developed projects by the school. Besides, there were also applied the methodologies: Reflexive Session with students; and Focal Group, with teachers and specialists involved in the reading and writing acquisition process. Through the obtained data with the focal group and the reflexive session, we could relate the findings with the school‟s results. It was also made an analysis based on the studied authors. According to the research, we could understand that the students are literate, however, the reading practices are still a problem, so it is the used methodology, which is not based on the literacy theories. This is a challenge for the students‟ development because even they have expressed that sometimes the topic studied is not related to their reality.