Leitura literária na educação infantil: entre saberes e práticas

Abstract

This work, linked to the research line Language, Knowledge and Teacher Training of the Graduate Program of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora / UFJF - Minas Gerais, seeks to understand the meanings produced by children for their experiences with literature . To this end, reading workshops were held in a group of children from the 2nd. Period of Early Childhood Education, having as a guiding axis the mediations of literary texts in interface with other languages. The objective of this research is to understand the childhood lived by the children from themselves, understanding how the literary experience contributes to the cultural and human formation of the child in the contemporary world. To investigate the social and cultural contexts in which the experience of childhood is constituted is to do research with children. In this sense, the theoretical-methodological path for this research is based on the relations of alterity between adults and children, in the novelty of this encounter and in the processes of negotiation and production of meanings for the literary text. In dialogue with Bakhtin's philosophy of language and with Vygotsky's historical-cultural theory, I consider research as an event because knowledge is a social construction that involves, in a dynamic process, the interlocution of concrete subjects for the production of meanings And meanings, which implies a way of being and being in the world, but also of understanding it. The data analyzed in this study, produced through field research, were grouped into categories of analysis as a didactic choice that facilitates the understanding of the study object. For the critical appreciation of the selected events, I referred to the vignettes as a technique that allows data analysis. The analyzes carried out reveal that the reading mediations carried out with the children provide significant experiences with the literature, which contributes to the creative activity of the children and to the sharing of meanings and meanings between the subjects. They also demonstrated the relevance of the active participation of children in the process of knowledge construction, as subjects that live and transform the culture.