Projetos de literatura na escola: a poesia como plataforma de letramento literário e expansão cultural em uma escola estadual de Minas Gerais

Abstract

The present dissertation, developed within the scope of the Professional Master Degree in Educational Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Public Policy Center and Education Evaluation at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF), deals with the scope and impacts of two literary projects developed in a Public School located in a country town of the state of Minas Gerais - the POETIZAR project and the Festa Literária de Carmo da Mata project (Flicar). The proposal is to research the scope and impacts of these two literary projects at the Joaquim Afonso Rodrigues Public School, the only one public educational institution in Carmo da Mata town. The objective that guides this research is to give an answer to the following question: What are the impacts of the Poetizar and Flicar Projects at the school, to improve students’ literary literacy through experience with literature? For the theoretical discussion about literature at school and literary literacy, we brought authors such as Cosson (2019), Lajolo (2003), Azevedo (1999, 2003, 2004 2010), Soares (2011), Paulino (2005), Bordini and Aguiar (1993) among others. This study is justified by the projects consolidation and growth, which, succeeded uniting the school to incorporate literature and to propose activities that went beyond the limits of the school environment and joined the townspeople, and also by the results observed regarding to students literary literacy, as the cultural expansion observed among students and in the townspeople and even the relationship improvement between educational actors inserted in the projects. For qualitative research, we used questionnaires on a Likert scale applied to teachers from all knowledge areas of the institution and students from the 8th year of Elementary School to the 3rd year of High School and a focus group of Portuguese-speaking teachers. From the data analysis, we conclude that the literature in the faculty's view is still based on common sense, that the literature needs to be highlighted in everyday school’s life and there is a lack in alternative spaces to the classmates to experience literary enjoyment. The action plan gives proposals for refinement and distribution of the project actions throughout the school year, for teachers’ training, creation of literary spaces in the school and the reframing of the school’s library, always with an eye on students’ literary literacy and literature as a tool for social and personal transformation.