A ficção policial em sala de aula: uma proposta de ampliação do repertório

Abstract

This action research presents a proposal for intervention applied to a class of 8th grade of elementary school, from a municipal public school in the city of Juiz de Fora, in the year 2016. Facing the diagnosis of low interest in reading books and a limited literary repertoire, this proposal has aimed to make the literary reading more attractive to students, as well as broaden their repertoire, having been chosen as a starting point the juvenile detective genre by allowing both the establishment of a horizontal intertextual network, with other juvenile police work, as a vertical network with the literary tradition of the genre. The intervention backed up theoretically on the concept of literary literacy (Paulino and Cosson, 2009; Colomer, 2007), as well as on the proposals for the realization of literary literacy (Paulino and Cosson, 2009) and the readers’ formation (Colomer, 2007) in school; on the concept of literary repertoire (Iser, 1996); on the concept of literary polysystem (Even-Zohar, 2013); and on the concept of readers community (Chartier, 1994). The execution of the project has been accomplished in three stages, starting with the integration of students in the readers’ community on the police narrative, through the shared reading of a juvenile detective fiction, and widening their repertoire with the narrative strategies of police literary tradition, used in tales by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. This work is linked to the Professional Master's program in Letters - PROFLETRAS, joining the line of research: Reading and Text Production: social diversity and teaching practices. The results of this research have showed how effective the strategies used are to promote the literary literacy of students, both in the sense of a greater involvement with reading, and in the sense of an effective extension of their literary repertoire. However, they have also showed that it is a continuous process, requiring constant re-evaluation and planning new goals.