Biblioteca escolar: um espaço de aprendizagem

Abstract

The present dissertation analyzes two School Libraries of the Minas Gerais state system in order to check if they are being used as a pedagogical resource in favor of the learning process or not. We begin from the hypothesis that the use of the School Library as a pedagogical resource potentiates the school’s educational results that are investigated by external evaluations. There were two focuses on services offered by the Libraries: formation of the reader and the orientation of the school research. The employed methodology was the case study. That way, the first moment was the observation in loco, the reading of school documents – Pedagogical Political Project and School Regiment -, and the pickup of structural information about the Libraries and schools. Afterwards, were realized semi structured interviews with the managing team and the Teachers for the Tuition and Use of the Library (PEUB in Portuguese) and also the search for theoretical referential. We came to the conclusion that more the libraries are pedagogically explored, better are the results presented by schools in external evaluations, even though this improvement has not been quantified yet. Finally, trying to potentiate the learning process on the deficient aspects detected in the work of the School Library of each school unit researched, was elaborated the Educational Action Plan (PAE in Portuguese). Were proposed two PAE: 1) PAE through the governmental pathway of the School of the School (Escola da Escola in Portuguese); e 2) PAE through the governmental pathway of the Regional Education Secretary of Pouso Alegre.