LITERATURE, READING AND WRITING: GAPS OF PREJUDICES AND STEREOTYPES IN LITERARY TEXTS
Keywords: Reading. Children’s literature. Prejudice and Stereotype. Teachingand learning.
The dissertation discusses the practice of reading as an important element in the acquisition and construction of knowledges. It reflects on the development of an interventional project carried out in the Programa de MestradoProfissionalemLetras – PROFLETRAS (Professional Master’s Degree in Languages - PROFELETRAS). The interventional approach managed students from the 7th and 8th grades of an elementary school named, Irmã Miguelina Corso, municipality of São Pedro da Cipa, MT.It focused on teaching the reading habits, interpretation and writing through literary texts. Also amplify the students’ sensibility to produce fictional texts, as well oral and written, of different genres focusing on readers’ formation, which theme is “Prejudice and Stereotype”.We are based on studies centered on the concepts of Reading and Literature approached by Jaus (1994), Zilberman (1989), Jouve (2002), Couson (2012), Coelho (2000), Colomer (2007) among others. With texts related to children’s literature, it sought to create conditions for students to expand their communicative and argumentative skills. Due to the Covid – 19 pandemic, that frightened everyone in 2020, the Project readjusted to be applied using digital technologies in remote classes.The active methodologies and action research provided theoretical support into the successful intervention.As a final product it is listed at the end a Collection of Pedagogical Interventions Activities, which contains reflexive approaches linked to the development of the teacher and student. The use of technology got relevancy to the development of actions and proportionated to students a reception of texts and activities. We hope to contribute to the strengthening and consolidation of future Works, in significant school practices, aimed at improving the learning and consequently the citizen formation.